Le retour des villes européennes

Le retour des villes européennes
Author: Patrick Le Galès
Publisher: Les Presses de Sciences Po
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2011
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Alors que les projecteurs restent braqués sur les très grandes métropoles mondiales, Patrick Le Galès analyse comment, dans les villes européennes, acteurs, groupes et organisations se mobilisent pour concevoir des processus d'intégration, renforcer les sociétés urbaines et organiser des modes de gouvernance au sein desquels les élus et le gouvernement urbain jouent un rôle important. Phénomène original inscrit dans la longue durée, les villes européennes forment un réseau dense d'agglomérations de 200 000 à 2 ou 3 millions d'habitants qui ne cessent de se réinventer. Soumises à des pressions contradictoires - mobilité, tensions sociales, pauvreté, immigration, mondialisation des entreprises, enchevêtrement des pouvoirs et des politiques publiques qui conduisent à la fragmentation -, elles continuent de croître en développant des stratégies collectives. Cette seconde édition enrichie d'une préface inédite vient confirmer la robustesse du modèle des villes européennes, la réalité de leur investissement dans les questions de développement durable et de leur mobilisation politique pour recréer de la cohésion dans des villes fragmentées ; mais aussi, hélas, leur plus grande difficulté, dans un contexte de crise, à financer leurs projets comme à jouer un rôle moteur dans l'invention de sociétés européennes moins nationales.

Urban Governance in Southern Europe

Urban Governance in Southern Europe
Author: Abel Albet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131700387X

The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics. While it encourages co-operation, participation and collective construction, at the same time, it has brought about new forms of public demission, oligarchic regimes and less local democracy. The dilemmas accompanying these changes are particularly relevant when observing the cities of Southern Europe, whose socio-cultural specificities very much structure local political and policy materialisations. Bringing together a team of leading scholars from across the social sciences, this volume examines the issues of urban governance in the Southern European context. Illustrated by case studies of several main cities and metropoles on the North Mediterranean coast, it introduces and critically analyses the latest theories and approaches to urban governance. It questions how the 'real' or socio-cultural notion of city seems to have been separated from that of the 'political' city and explores how more integrated socio-political forms might be developed. It looks at current structures, dynamics and cultures of governance in urban development and questions whether they are well adapted to new realities and challenges or whether there are significant imbalances causing limited or fragmented political-administrative visions. By considering both the long Mediterranean history along with the recent but enduring global economic and political developments, this book argues that Southern European cities will have to depend greatly upon its own socio-cultural networks, dynamics and cosmopolitan evolution, making the most of the region's characteristic urban strengths, as trading hubs, with rich hinterlands and large and varied population.

The Member States of the European Union

The Member States of the European Union
Author: Simon Bulmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199544832

This is a comprehensive and rounded thematic study of the EU-member states. The text provides detailed coverage of the principal member states and comparative studies of the smaller states, as well as discussing the issue of enlargement and covering empirical themes.

Policy Analysis in France

Policy Analysis in France
Author: Charlotte Halpern
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447324234

Policy analysis in France lays the foundation for a more systematic understanding of policy analysis in the country. In doing so, the volume discusses the role of the State and its restructuring, processes of government and governance, and State-Society relationships and policies as both a process and an outcome. Through 18 chapters contributions focus on policymakers, their practices, ideas and discourses, how they engage in sustained relationships with a large variety of market and society actors, and the concrete devices they use in order to make policy objectives operational. This is a comprehensive study of policy analysis in France that will be valuable to academics and postgraduate students researching and studying a range of policy and public management areas.

European Cities and Towns

European Cities and Towns
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2009-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191547441

Since the Middle Ages Europe has been one of the most urbanized continents on the planet and Europe's cities have firmly stamped their imprint on the continent's economic, social, political, and cultural life. This study of European cities and towns from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day looks both at regional trends from across Europe and also at the widely differing fortunes of individual communities on the roller coaster of European urbanization. Taking a wide-angled view of the continent that embraces northern and eastern Europe as well as the city systems of the Mediterranean and western Europe, it addresses important debates ranging from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman era to the position of the European city in a globalizing world. The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the middle ages, the early modern period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - with each part containing chapters on urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life and landscape, and governance. Throughout, the book addresses key questions such as the role of migration, including that of women and ethnic minorities; the functioning of competition and emulation between cities, as well as issues of inter-urban cooperation; the different ways civic leaders have sought to promote urban identity and visibility; the significance of urban autonomy in enabling cities to protect their interests against the state; and not least why European cities and towns over the period have been such pressure cookers for new ideas and creativity, whether economic, political, or cultural.

Another Global City

Another Global City
Author: P. Saunier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2008-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230613810

This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.

Cities

Cities
Author: Pierre Jacquet
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 8179931315

The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives.This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices.The authors show that urbanization is not a problem per se for sustainable development, but rather that cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges.The reader will be inspired by vital analyses of the next decade's windows of opportunity for sustainable urban growth.

Suburban Governance

Suburban Governance
Author: Pierre Hamel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2015-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 144266357X

North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges. In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world’s suburban spaces and everyday life within them. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia, Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduction to a vital topic in contemporary urban studies.

Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits

Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits
Author: Donatella Della Porta
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1845458621

Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the production of new identities. They are promoted through multiple networks of different social and political groups, that share common claims and adopt various forms of protest action. It is during the protest campaigns that a sense of community is created.

City of Crisis

City of Crisis
Author: Frank Eckardt
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839428424

The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex interference between the different aspects of the crisis. They show that the recent urban crisis is not purely a result of the budgetary problems of the nation state (»austerity urbanism«) but needs to be seen as multiple contestations. The Crisis of the City is therefore understood as a result of a changing nation state, cultural diversity, challenged urban planning and politics and a globalized economy.