Urban renaissance? : New Labour, community and urban policy / edited by Rob Imrie and Mike Raco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raco, Mike.

Imrie, Robert, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Community development, Urban--Great Britain.

Community development, Urban.

Great Britain.

Urban policy--Great Britain.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 New Labour and the turn to community regeneration 1

1 Community and the changing nature of urban policy / Rob Imrie, Mike Raco 3

2 Social capital, regeneration and urban policy / Ade Kearns 37

3 Visions of 'urban renaissance': the Urban Task Force report and the Urban White Paper / Loretta Lees 61

Part 2 Community involvement in urban policy 83

4 Strategic, multilevel neighbourhood regeneration: an outward-looking approach at last? / Annette Hastings 85

5 Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration / Rob Atkinson 101

6 Communities at the heart? Community action and urban policy in the UK / Peter North 121

7 Cultural justice and addressing 'social exclusion': a case study of a Single Regeneration Budget project in Blackbird Leys, Oxford / Zoe Morrison 139

8 Disability and the discourses of the Single Regeneration Budget / Claire Edwards 163

9 Citizenship, community and participation in small towns: a case study of regeneration partnerships / Bill Edwards, Mark Goodwin, Michael Woods 181

10 Economy, equity or empowerment? New Labour, communities and urban policy evaluation / Stuart Wilks-Heeg 205

Part 3 The future of community in urban policy 221

11 The new urban policy: towards empowerment or incorporation? The practice of urban policy / Allan Cochrane 223

12 New Labour, community and the future of Britain's urban renaissance / Mike Raco 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1861343809

OCLC:

51871299