Wealth Is A Crown: How to Experience Prosperity, Abundance, and Increase in Your Life

Wealth Is A Crown: How to Experience Prosperity, Abundance, and Increase in Your Life book cover

Wealth Is A Crown: How to Experience Prosperity, Abundance, and Increase in Your Life

Author(s): Nick Buck (Author), Ian Gordon (Author), Peter Hall (Author), Michael Harloe (Author), Mark Kleinman (Author)

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: October 31, 2002
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 424 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0415279321
  • ISBN-13: 9780415279321

Book Description

For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement to secure and sustain this success is argued to be the achievement of social cohesion.

Working Capital provides a rigorous but accessible analysis of these key issues taking London as its test case. The book provides the first substantial analysis of key economic, social and structural issues that the new London administration needs to deal with. In a wider context, its critical assessment of the bases of the new urbanism and of the global city thesis will raise questions both about the adequacy of urban thinking and about the capacity of new institutions alone to resolve the fundamental problems faced by cities.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Working Capital is an essential read for many people; indeed all involved in the developing the future of London.' - Built Environment

'The book moves effortlessly through its many topics... [it] approaches critically some of the most-debated concepts of urban theory and policy with a strong empirical grounding and does so in an engaging and stimulating manner, relevant for practitioners, academics and students.' - Urban Studies

'Working Capital is an essential read for many people; indeed all involved in the developing the future of London.' - Built Environment

'[An] extensive, thoroughly grounded and well-conducted study of current life and labour in London...
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Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London approaches critically some of the most-debated concepts of urban theory and policy with a strong empirical grounding and does so in an engaging and stimulating manner, relevant for practitioners, academics and students.' - Gesa Helms, Urban Studies Vol 42, April 2005

About the Author

Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Michael Harlow, Mark Kleinman

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