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The book brings together a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of recent reforms to city governance in the UK from the national to the community scale, analysing for the first time the effects of these reforms in an overarching way. Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a sustainable global future, these issues demand radical new approaches to how we govern our cities. Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and innovative models of planning reform, this timely and important book compares the UK with an array of international examples to examine cutting-edge experimentation and innovation in new models of governance and urban policy. The flagship text of the Urban Policy, Planning and Built Environment series, this broad but accessible volume is ideal for students and provides and authoritative single point of reference for teaching.

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9781447350798

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"""This book is a very helpful guide and resource to both the past and future devolution agenda."" Local Government Studies"

This book is a very helpful guide and resource to both the past and future devolution agenda. Local Government Studies

This important book sets out in clear terms how governments have sought to innovate and rescale governance, but in doing so have not necessarily resolved the issues that such changes were supposed to address. Gavin Parker, University of Reading This book is a very helpful guide and resource to both the past and future devolution agenda. Local Government Studies

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John Sturzaker is a Senior Lecturer in Planning at the University of Liverpool. Alex Nurse is a Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Liverpool.

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