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"This book pays homage to Neil Smith's ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith's work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the book demonstrates the impact of Smith's ideas on understanding the role of urbanisation in general and gentrification, in particular, in contemporary society. The book demonstrates how gentrification varies significantly from city to city, across different cultural and political-economic regimes, and in terms of the timing of urban transformations. This collection provides a forum for debate for those working in urban regeneration and citizenship, and those directly affected by the processes and problems arising from gentrification. It will be of interest to students and scholars in urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and wider social and urban theories." --

1. The improbable metropolis : decentralisation and local democracy against metropolitan areas in the Western world / Christian Lefevre -- 2. The institutional dimension to urban governance and territorial management in the Lisbon metropolitan area / Jose Luis Crespo and Joao Cabral -- 3. Competitiveness and cohesion : urban government and governance's strains of Italian cities / Francesca Governa -- 4. Urban governance and the 'profiles' of southern Italy cities / Carla Tedesco -- 5. The challenges of urban renewal : 10 lessons from the Catalan experience / Oriol Nel-lo -- 6. Cities and urban and metropolitan regions in Spain : a new agenda in a global context / Joan Romero-Gonzalez and Joaquin Farinos-Dasi -- 7. The governance of French towns : from the centre-periphery scheme to urban regimes / Gilles Pinson -- 8. Integrated urban interventions in Greece : local relational realities unsettled / Ioannis Chorianopoulos -- 9. A city hall for the competitive city : urban management and urban governance in Slovenia / Irena Baclija -- 10. Urban governance in Istanbul / Nil Uzun -- 11. Urban governance in the South of Europe : cultural identities and global dilemmas / Joao Seixas and Abel Albet.

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 w.