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CITIES OF EUROPE:CHANGING CONTEXTS,LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND THE CHALLENGE TO URBAN COHESION, by Yuri Kazerov (ed.). Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 2004. 368 pp. paper. ISBN: 1-405-12132-7. Reviewed by Elena Vesselinov University of South Carolina The idea of social integration in the modern world can be traced back to 17th- and 18th- century European philosophers. Locke and Rousseau’s ideas of the social contract reflect the intellectual priority of these times: to find a true nexus of societal integration. The modern language of citizenship originated at precisely that time specifying the terrain of political, social, and economic rights and responsibilities. Cities of Europe continues this established tradition of social thought with central foci on integration and cohesion. The book is also a significant contribution to recent scholarship, which examines the urban transformations resulting from the changes posed by the global spread of neoliberal macroeconomic policies. Cities of Europe aims at “[i]nvestigating these changes in West- ern European urban societies, understanding the tensions they might give rise to, their multiple dimensions, the potential patterns of social vulnerability that might emerge, the impacts on the built environment, and the solutions provided” (p. 4). To achieve these goals, the chapters in the book are
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Published: Mar 1, 2006
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