Main entry:

Comeback cities. English.

Title & Author:

Comeback cities : transformation strategies for former industrial cities / Nienke van Boom and Hans Mommaas (eds.).

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published to honor the comeback city of Tilburg in its anniversary year of 2009, commemorating the municipal charter received 200 years ago.
Translation of: Comeback cities : vernieuwingsstrategieën voor de industriestad.
Case study cities: Tilburg, Enschede, Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Tampere, Forssa, Chemnitz, Lodz, Prato, Roubaix, and Ghent.
Includes bibliographical references.
Managing for opportunities : former textile cities in a post-Fordist era / Hans Mommaas, Nienke van Boom -- Comeback cities in pictures 1 -- Case study 1. Tilburg/Enschede : urban regimes and evolutionary paths / Nienke van Boom, Hans Mommaas -- Case study 2. Manchester/Huddersfield. Place, culture and urban change / Robert Grimm, Katie Milestone -- Case study 3. Tampere/Forssa : morphology, regimes and meanings / Panu Lehtovuori, Mikko Lindqvist, Suvi Eräpalo -- Case study 4. Ghent/Roubaix : centre, periphery and urban visions / Eric Corijn, Peter Scholliers -- Comeback cities in pictures 2 -- Fatal clusters. TIlburg : the evolutionary pathway of the Tilburg wool industry / Michiel Scheffer -- Design workshop. Tilburg : spatial comeback strategies for Tilburg / Michael Bol, Ivo Bastiaansen.

Summary:

For centuries, certain cities in Europe were dominated by the textile industry-until the industry relocated to lower-wage countries, leaving these formerly prosperous cities languishing, their abandoned factories sitting unpurposed and untenanted.
Comeback Cities presents the results of a unique study of the period following the demise of the textile industry across cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, France, Italy and Poland. The research focuses on the solutions these cities have conceived to recover from today's outsource economy. In a variety of case studies, Comeback Cities stimulates discussion on urban revitalization and international cooperation. Alongside this research, the book surveys the worldwide debate on this topic, and is richly illustrated with photographs.

ISBN:

9789056627072 (hardcover)
9056627074 (hardcover)

Subject:

Urban renewal Europe.
Textile industry Europe History.
Industrial buildings Remodeling for other use.
Rénovation urbaine Europe.
Textiles et tissus Industrie et commerce Europe Histoire.
Constructions industrielles Reconversion.
Textile industry.
Urban renewal.
Industriesteden.
Stadsvernieuwing.
Tilburg (Netherlands) History.
Europe.
Netherlands Tilburg.
Europa (geografie)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Boom, Nienke van.
Mommaas, Hans.

Transformation strategies for former industrial cities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266476
Call No.: BIB 198343
Status: Available