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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This work explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance. |
| Contents |
Cover; Realising the city; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword by Kevin Ward; Introduction: tackling the urban through ethnography: Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons; Part I: Realising urban organisations; 1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment: Hannah Knox; 2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy: Jessica Symons; 3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification: Damian O'Doherty; Part II: Realising urban spaces |
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4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester: Michael Atkins5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester: Luciana Lang; 6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre: Elisa Pieri; Part III: Realising urban communities; 7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a 'global leisure brand' to FC United as a 'community club': George Poulton; 8 'People want jobs, they want a life!' Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester: Camilla Lewis |
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9 'Don't call the police on me, I won't call them on you': self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester: Katherine SmithAfterword: the tension in making and realising a city: Jessica Symons; Select bibliography; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- England -- Manchester.
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Cities and towns. |
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England -- Manchester. |
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Sociology, Urban -- England -- Manchester.
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Sociology, Urban. |
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Ethnology -- England -- Manchester.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Ethnology. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. |
| Genre/Form |
Livres numériques.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, Camilla, editor.
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Symons, Jessica, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Realising the city. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018 9781526100733 (OCoLC)1019653115 |
| ISBN |
9781526117113 (electronic book) |
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1526117118 (electronic book) |
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9781526117120 (ePub ebook) |
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1526117126 (ePub ebook) |
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9781526100733 |
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1526100738 |
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