The last decade has seen a proliferation of theoretical approaches, which have sought to
uncover the changing form and governance of cities and regions following the dissolution of …

The long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the
distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent …

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the
end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the …

Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose
corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital …

The New Urban Politics (or NUP) of local economic development has become one of the
dominant themes in urban political economy in the last twenty years. But despite the volume …

This paper presents a case study of contemporary urban redevelopment in Syracuse, New
York, within a theoretical framework drawn from urban political economy. Our analysis …

This paper explores the formation and practices of Marketing Manchester in the context of
the rise of the partnership model of urban management and the apparent emergence of …

A variety of foreign-led economies emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late
1990s. State economic strategies in the Visegrad Four region (V4) of the Czech Republic …

Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of
growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city. The thesis is situated within a …

Recent policy initiatives for urban development have changed the relationships among
stakeholders in China's urban consolidation processes. Building upon Giddens'(Giddens A …