This paper seeks to examine processes of state restructuring in exploring the ways inwhich Business Improvement Districts are being introduced into UK cities. Inadvancing the analysis the focus here is on the way in which one or two New YorkBusiness Improvement Districts were constructed as...

In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status...