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A Small Story of a Hill
Over the course of a day an unnamed narrator wanders the streets of West Melbourne talking with the people he meets, who are the people those streets are named after. What the say shapes his journey. He begins at the docks where he contemplates suicide but decides instead to go to the residential part of the suburb in search of romantic love or sexual adventure. He fails in this quest, but is reconciled to go on living.
Three Thousand
This story occurs over the course of an afternoon and an evening. An unnamed narrator contemplates suicide by drowning himself in the Yarra River, but is approached by Matthew Flinders from Flinders Street who convinces him to walk around the streets instead and talk to people about his problems. The narrator agrees, and in each street he meets the person who the street is named after, such as King William in William Street or Captain John Foxton in Foxton Lane; but most of what they say is not helpful. It emerges that the reason for the narrator's despair is that he is in love with Chloe, a barmaid at Young & Jackson's Hotel, but he can't see her any more, and she won't hear anything he has...
Understanding Urban Policy
This extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare. An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s. Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism. The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject. Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of disciplines.
Why Urban Geographies Matter
Making sense of the urban experience has long occupied social scientists, but it is a challenge of growing importance as the global urban population continues to grow. Within the context of this increasingly urbanized world, this book shows why and how geography matters in understanding cities and the ways in which people live in them. Engaging directly with some of the key debates in urban studies and drawing on the insights of contemporary geographical thinking and research, Allan Cochrane brings together theory and real-world examples. Written by a highly experienced and respected scholar and addressing global and comparative dimensions of urbanization, Why Urban Geographies Matter will be a valuable resource for teachers and students of urban geography and planning.
Rethinking the Region
Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space.
Economic Policy-Making by Local Authorities in Britain and Western Germany
Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in the UK and W. Germany faced up to the challenge of trying to help local industry and improve employment prospects. Based on the results of case-studies the book considers the powers and resources available to local authorities and examines how the authorities are organized for this type of economic activity. The authors' analysis of the interplay of political and administrative factors will be particularly important for student and professionals in comparative public policy and public finance. The study shows how economic policy making in local government is constrained both by the higher levels of government in both countries and by the conditions in the economy operating both locally and nationally.
Security: Welfare, Crime And Society
Why is the concept of ?security? so important in modern society? Why do people and governments invest so much in the pursuit of different forms of security? How do we make sense of the changing nature of the relationship between security and insecurity? This book focuses on the concept of 'security' - as an idea, an ideal and a practice ? and explores the ways in which it can shed light on the relationship between welfare and crime, and the ambiguities that arise from them. The authors investigate these issues by examining particular areas of social life and policy development with a focus that ranges from global to local and neighbourhood concerns. The book is integrated with engaging activ...
Whatever Happened to Local Government?
In the 1980s British local government was at the eye of the political storm. Councils were blamed for overspending and central government was blamed for threatening to bring an end to local democracy. In 1990 a new local tax - the poll tax - proved so unpopular that it helped to bring an end to Margaret Thatcher's reign as Prime Minister. But what has really happened to local government over the last fifteen years? What do the changes tell us about the nature of British politics in the 1990s? And what do they mean for the future direction of local government? These questions are at the heart of this book, which argues that it is necessary fundamentally to reappraise the ways in which we understand local government. Allan Cochrane develops a wide ranging argument, drawing on material from across the traditional divisions created by academic disciplines and theoretical systems to show that local government in Britain will never be the same again. It needs to be seen as just one element in a more complex local welfare state, which is itself being transformed to fit in with a new (business-led) agenda for welfare.
Lived Experiences of Multiculture
In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference and social interaction have never been more pressing. Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council funded study of different locations across England, Lived Experiences of Multiculture uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the ways in which complex urban populations experience, negotiate, accommodate and resist cultural difference as they share a range of everyday social resources and public spaces. The authors present novel ways of re-thinking and developing concepts such as multiculture, community and conviviality, whilst also repositioning debates which focus on conflict models for understanding cultural differences. Amidst highly charged arguments over the social relations of belonging and the meanings of local and national identities, this timely volume will appeal to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students interested in fields such as Race and Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies, Human Geography and Migration Studies.
