Realising the city : urban ethnography in Manchester /

Realising the city : urban ethnography in Manchester / edited by Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Realising the city; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword by Kevin Ward; Introduction: tackling the urban through ethnography: Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons; Part I: Realising urban organisations; 1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment: Hannah Knox; 2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy: Jessica Symons; 3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification: Damian O'Doherty; Part II: Realising urban spaces 4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester: Michael Atkins5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester: Luciana Lang; 6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre: Elisa Pieri; Part III: Realising urban communities; 7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a 'global leisure brand' to FC United as a 'community club': George Poulton; 8 'People want jobs, they want a life!' Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester: Camilla Lewis 9 'Don't call the police on me, I won't call them on you': self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester: Katherine SmithAfterword: the tension in making and realising a city: Jessica Symons; Select bibliography; Index

This work explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance.



9781526117113


Cities and towns--England--Manchester.
Sociology, Urban--England--Manchester.
Ethnology--England--Manchester.


Electronic Books.

HT133 / .R435 2018