This analysis of Manchester's urban transformation asks whether the "new Manchester" has engineered an urban renaissance, or is on a slide into the post-industrial sludge of economic insecurity and social polarisation?

Preface1. Placing Manchester - Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward2. Global Manchester: From globaliser to globalised - Peter Dicken3. Macunian ways: Politics of regeneration - Brian Robson4. Economic transitions: Restructuring local labour markets - Benito Giordano and Laura Twomey5. Entrepreneurial turns: Municipal socialism and after - Steve Quilley6. Olympic dreams: Visions of partnership - Allan Cochrane, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell7. Metropolitan manoeuvres: Making Greater Manchester - Iain Deas and Kevin Ward8. Bomb sites: Politics of opportunity - Adam Holden9. City building: Redevelopment in Manchester - Gwyndaf Williams10. Regional tensions: Constructing institutional cohesion? - Martin Jones and Gordon Macleod11. Poor Manchester: Old problems and new deals - Dean Herd and Terry Patterson12. Hypocritical city: Cycles of urban exclusion - Rosemary MellorBibliography

Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic change in Manchester.. Explores the costs and consequences of making the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial or 'entrepreneurial' city, with broad implications for other major cities.