Taylor & Francis Towns and Cities: Competing for survival

Product Description Towns and Cities - Competing for survival suggests that as public and private corporations continue to downsize, outsource and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. Review 'Here then is the market-based antidote to planning idealism. Which is not to say that planners should not read it. On the contrary, since it illuminates all sorts of matters they ought to be aware of... they should study it...they won'tbe disapppointed' - Planning Magazine'...it illuminates all sorts of matters they [planners] ought to be aware of, from technology that is 'the catalyst for urban change' to the influence of property investment on urban areas, they should study it.' - Planning Magazine'The whole book is an invigorating catholic mix of description and polemic' - Russell Schiller, Hillier Park, London'...both provocative and stimulating. - Architectural Review