Social Challenges and Organizing Capacity in Cities
Subtitle: Experiences in Eight European Cities (Euricur Series (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research))
Contributors: J. Van Der Meer (Editor); Peter M. J. Pol (Editor); Leo Van Den Berg (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780754634546
Subjects: Social Science; Urban policy; Human Geography; Cities and towns; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; Research; Belgium; Finland; Netherlands; Social issues; Sweden; Urban communities; Urban renewal & regeneration; City planning; Europe
First sentence: Globalisation and the transition to a knowledge and information society have considerably strengthened the position of cities as nerve centres of the 'new economy' (see, for instance, Castells and Hall, 1994).