Using the example of Manchester's Olympic bidding process, the paper examines some of the links between globalisation and what has become known as the 'new urban politics'. The politics of the city's Olympic bids powerfully symbolise many of the supposedly transformative features of the new...

<title/> HAUGHTON G., JONES M., PECK J., TICKELL A. and WHILE A. (2000) Labour market policy as flexible welfare: prototype employment zones and the new workfarism, Reg. Studies 34, 669-680. This paper examines the evolution of the employability agenda of New Labour through the lens of one of its main...