Beskrivning
Beskrivning
- Coventry provides a concrete example of a city that has been subject to numerous challenges and subsequent changes
- Contributes to our understanding of how urban centres are increasingly embedded in the architecture of the global market and whether this serves to insulate them from peaks and troughs in economic activity
- Asks whether globalising economic forces have served to make Coventry’s local economy a more robust, dynamic and innovative economy, enjoying higher standards of living and offered improved work opportunities in better paying jobs
- Presents a collaborative and detailed investigation into the social and economic history of a major UK conurbation, from the post-war period up until the present
- Explores the dynamics of socioeconomic change and globalisation through the prism of Coventry
