Title Realising the city : urban ethnography in Manchester / edited by Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) 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 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 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 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 Analysis Manchester's urban challenges birth rituals carbon emissions civic actors civic parade community groups death rituals entrepreneurial' governance ethnographic analyses globalisation local communities loungification migration organisational structures urban ethnographers urban policy urban spaces Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cities and towns -- England -- Manchester Sociology, Urban -- England -- Manchester Ethnology -- England -- Manchester SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. Cities and towns Ethnology Sociology, Urban England -- Manchester Form Electronic book Author Lewis, Camilla, editor Symons, Jessica, editor ISBN 9781526117113 1526117118 9781526117120 1526117126

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