Post-industrial cities in transition

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Having lost their major manufacturing industries during the second half of the twentieth century, the three English cities Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds are still struggling not only to find a new economic basis, but also to reinvent and reposition themselves within the global urban hierarchy. Using Henri Lefebvre's concept of space as a social product, this study looks at recent interpretations of urban space and asks what kinds of spaces are being and have been produced in postindustrial cities. Who produces them and how? What ideas, values and imaginations of the city are expressed in these spaces? How are they represented, interpreted and used? What effects does this have on their users and non-users? And which cultural values are supported or subverted?

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Claudia Clemens

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