Cities of Europe

Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban

• ISBN: 9781444399493
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication: July 15, 2011
• Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
• Language: English

Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.

• A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.

• Focuses on the interplay between segregation, social exclusion and governance issues in these cities.

• Takes a comparative approach by highlighting the specifics of European cities vis-à-vis other urban contexts and analysing the intra-European differences.

• The CD-ROM features a series of 2,000 photographs from seventeen cities (Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels, Bucharest, Helsinki, London, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, Tirana, Turin, and Utrecht).

• Also features 126 thematic maps, interviews with established scholars, and literature reviews.

• The book and the CD-ROM are linked through an extensive cross-referencing system.