Cover -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The Urban Future -- 2 - 20/40 Vision - Urban Futures to Avoid and Urban Futures to Admire -- Part II Local Issues and Global Implications -- 3 - The Politics of Interdependence - Risk and Uncertainty in the City-Region -- 4 - Commentary on Murray Stewart's Thesis -- 5 - Identity, Community and Polity - Thinking about the Future in Bristol -- 6 - Identities, Communities and Policies - Cities on the Threshold of a New Era -- 7 - The Dual City or the City of Many Parts? Rethinking Differences in Cities in Transition -- 8 - Socio-Economic Exclusion and the Stability of the Urban Social Order -- 9 - Industrial Past and Urban Future in the Ruhr -- Part III Global Concerns and Local Strategies -- 10 - Local City Structures under Pressure to Change -- 11 - European Union Policies and Funds - the Role of Urban Government in England -- 12 - Defining Innovative Potential in City Regions -- 13 - Local Capacity in Bristol - Tentative Steps towards Institutional Thickness -- 14 - Capacity for Action at the Local Level -- 15 - Changing Cities - Transforming Socio-Ecological Relations in Bristol and Brussels -- 16 - Implementing Sustainable Development at the Local and Regional Level -- 17 - Challenges to Urban Policy: Modernization and the Mobilization of Local Resources in the Twenty-first Century -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.