New Developments in Urban Governance: Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity

Front Cover -- New Developments In Urban Governance: Rethinking Collaboration In The Age Of Austerity -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures And Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is 'austerity'? -- Austerity In The City -- Governance, Collaboration And Resistance -- Eight Cities As Case Studies -- Athens -- Baltimore -- Barcelona -- Greater Dandenong -- Dublin -- Leicester -- Montréal -- Nantes -- Book Structure -- 1 Crisis And Austerity In Eight Cities: An Overview -- Urban Histories And Traditions Between Idealism And Realism: Varieties Of Austere Neoliberalism -- Cities Beyond Austere Neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- 2 Collaborative Governance After The Global Economic Crisis -- Introduction -- Collaboration As A State-led Discourse -- Agency In Collaborative Urban Governance -- Despite The State -- Together With The State -- Against The State -- The Spaces Of Collaboration -- Conclusion -- 3 Austerity Governance, Political Resistance And Urban Transformation -- Establishing Parameters: Melbourne, Barcelona And Nantes Compared -- Governance Through Austerity Realism The Exemplary Case Of Barcelona -- An Official Discourse Of Collaborative Governance: The Logics And Limits Of Nantes -- Conclusion -- 4 Rescaling Through Austerity Governance -- Introduction -- Austerity And Scale -- Supranational Rescaling Levers -- Credit Rating Agencies -- The Rescaling Experiences Of Our Cities -- Forced Rescaling In Bailout Countries -- Centrally Controlled Decentralization -- Re-territorializing Policy-making From Below -- Financialization And Contested Rescaling -- Conclusion -- 5 The Local State In Austerity Governance -- Local Power, Governance And State Restructuring Collaborative Governance And Local State Power -- Local State Strategies In An Era Of Urban Governance -- Local State Restructuring -- Myth And Narrative Construction -- Incorporating And Factionalizing Civil Society -- Dividing And Weakening Civil Society -- Marginalizing, Ignoring And/or Containing Local Demands And Practices -- Conclusion -- 6 Urban Cultural Diversity And Economic Migration In Austere Times -- Introduction -- The Impacts Of Austerity On Cultural Diversity And Socio-political Equality: An Analytical Framework -- Neoliberal Austerity, Socioeconomic Distress And Solidarity Local Political Orientation And Institutional Frameworks -- The Quality Of Public Space -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Ambivalent Spaces Of Collaborative Governance, Subsistence And Resistance -- The Ambivalence Of Scale -- Collaboration Together With The State? -- Collaboration Against The State -- Collaboration Despite And Without The State -- Key Messages And Suggestions From The Research -- Conclusion -- Afterword: From Austerity To Covid-19 And Beyond -- Athens -- Baltimore -- Barcelona -- Greater Dandenong -- Dublin -- Leicester -- Montréal -- Nantes Jonathan S. Davies [and Fifteen Others]. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.