ABSTRACT
PATSY HEALEY City Strategies and Transforming Identities Governance efforts to manage and develop the qualities of cities touch much more than just the physical fabric or the amount and distribution of services. They are about more than jobs, GDP and material opportunities. They impinge also on our daily life worlds and our identities. This chapter tells the story of a city ‘against itself’, in which both the governance institutions and citizens are struggling to find a way forward from an old and largely shared identity, tied to a Fordist-welfarist nexus, into a differently configured future. Faced with economic and political challenges, the city council has initiated a strategic approach to changing the city’s social mix, through the medium of ‘masterplanned’ area remodelling.
