Daniel Stedman Jones
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161013
- eISBN:
- 9781400851836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161013.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter illustrates a slow transformation in affordable housing and urban policy between the 1960s and the 1990s in both the United States and Great Britain. Housing and urban policy for low- ...
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This chapter illustrates a slow transformation in affordable housing and urban policy between the 1960s and the 1990s in both the United States and Great Britain. Housing and urban policy for low- and moderate-income groups was one of the few social policy areas where the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan had a positive program to counter what they saw as a culture of dependency created by the welfare state. The problem of how to help disadvantaged people and poor communities was to be addressed through incentives, deregulation, and the creation and stimulation of opportunities in the private market. However, the majority of capable individuals and families would prosper instead as the forces of competition and private enterprise were unleashed in poorer areas.Less
This chapter illustrates a slow transformation in affordable housing and urban policy between the 1960s and the 1990s in both the United States and Great Britain. Housing and urban policy for low- and moderate-income groups was one of the few social policy areas where the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan had a positive program to counter what they saw as a culture of dependency created by the welfare state. The problem of how to help disadvantaged people and poor communities was to be addressed through incentives, deregulation, and the creation and stimulation of opportunities in the private market. However, the majority of capable individuals and families would prosper instead as the forces of competition and private enterprise were unleashed in poorer areas.
Allen J. Scott
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199549306
- eISBN:
- 9780191701511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549306.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Political Economy
This chapter focuses on the internal constitution of cities, specifically on their urban policy and cultural capitalism. It starts by defining what should be taken into consideration in this kind of ...
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This chapter focuses on the internal constitution of cities, specifically on their urban policy and cultural capitalism. It starts by defining what should be taken into consideration in this kind of investigation. It continues with defining what urban areas are, and what contributions these areas make to defining social life. Urbanization and its impact on economy and society are also discussed. The chapter concentrates on public policy, and how these policies materialize in urban planning and other collective orders. Lastly, it discusses some key issues and other problems faced by implementing such urban policies.Less
This chapter focuses on the internal constitution of cities, specifically on their urban policy and cultural capitalism. It starts by defining what should be taken into consideration in this kind of investigation. It continues with defining what urban areas are, and what contributions these areas make to defining social life. Urbanization and its impact on economy and society are also discussed. The chapter concentrates on public policy, and how these policies materialize in urban planning and other collective orders. Lastly, it discusses some key issues and other problems faced by implementing such urban policies.
James Lee
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098299
- eISBN:
- 9789882206779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098299.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter explains urban policy in Hong Kong. It points out at the very beginning of the chapter that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems ...
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This chapter explains urban policy in Hong Kong. It points out at the very beginning of the chapter that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems in urban areas. Urban policy's general domain has long expanded from physical concerns to social and community concerns. The chapter then observes that the “growth machine thesis” under the urban political economy approach provides the most useful and powerful framework in understanding urban policy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government. It also demonstrates how a network of powerful interest groups, all linked to the property market, has exerted a very strong influence on urban policies in Hong Kong. In order to check and balance the influence of these “rentiers,” and to secure the existence and representation of other values and interests in the urban policy of Hong Kong, two emerging social urban processes—community participation and the idea of sustainable development—should be enhanced.Less
This chapter explains urban policy in Hong Kong. It points out at the very beginning of the chapter that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems in urban areas. Urban policy's general domain has long expanded from physical concerns to social and community concerns. The chapter then observes that the “growth machine thesis” under the urban political economy approach provides the most useful and powerful framework in understanding urban policy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government. It also demonstrates how a network of powerful interest groups, all linked to the property market, has exerted a very strong influence on urban policies in Hong Kong. In order to check and balance the influence of these “rentiers,” and to secure the existence and representation of other values and interests in the urban policy of Hong Kong, two emerging social urban processes—community participation and the idea of sustainable development—should be enhanced.
Stuart Wilks-Heeg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447324157
- eISBN:
- 9781447324171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324157.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of geographically-targeted urban policy initiatives designed to address what the then Home Secretary James Callaghan described as the “deadly quagmire of need ...
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The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of geographically-targeted urban policy initiatives designed to address what the then Home Secretary James Callaghan described as the “deadly quagmire of need and apathy" in some inner-city communities. This chapter considers how these urban policies have evolved since the late 1960s, with a particular focus on the experimental character of these initiatives and their changing interpretation ‘community’. It focuses particularly on the (re)turn to community in urban policy from the early 1990s onwards, when community involvement, and ultimately community leadership, came to be seen as the solution to previous policy failure. The chapter argues that community-led urban policies repeated the mistakes of past initiatives by misrepresenting the causes of neighbourhood decline. It also suggests that the effective abandonment of urban policy experiments since 2010 is arguably be the biggest regeneration experiment to date.Less
The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of geographically-targeted urban policy initiatives designed to address what the then Home Secretary James Callaghan described as the “deadly quagmire of need and apathy" in some inner-city communities. This chapter considers how these urban policies have evolved since the late 1960s, with a particular focus on the experimental character of these initiatives and their changing interpretation ‘community’. It focuses particularly on the (re)turn to community in urban policy from the early 1990s onwards, when community involvement, and ultimately community leadership, came to be seen as the solution to previous policy failure. The chapter argues that community-led urban policies repeated the mistakes of past initiatives by misrepresenting the causes of neighbourhood decline. It also suggests that the effective abandonment of urban policy experiments since 2010 is arguably be the biggest regeneration experiment to date.
James Lee
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139477
- eISBN:
- 9789882208681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139477.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter argues that that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems in urban areas. Its general domain has long expanded from physical ...
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This chapter argues that that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems in urban areas. Its general domain has long expanded from physical concerns to social and community concerns in which politics has a key role to play as conflicts of values are inevitable. In this process, ideally, government should fulfil the important function of interest intermediation to maintain fairness and justice. Unfortunately, contrary to what the theory suggests, Lee finds that the “growth machine thesis” under the urban political economy approach provides the most useful and powerful framework in understanding the urban policy in the HKSAR. He has seen a network of powerful interest groups, all linked up to the property market, exert a dominant influence on the urban policies in Hong Kong for their own interest maximization.Less
This chapter argues that that urban policy should not be approached simply as finding technical means for technical problems in urban areas. Its general domain has long expanded from physical concerns to social and community concerns in which politics has a key role to play as conflicts of values are inevitable. In this process, ideally, government should fulfil the important function of interest intermediation to maintain fairness and justice. Unfortunately, contrary to what the theory suggests, Lee finds that the “growth machine thesis” under the urban political economy approach provides the most useful and powerful framework in understanding the urban policy in the HKSAR. He has seen a network of powerful interest groups, all linked up to the property market, exert a dominant influence on the urban policies in Hong Kong for their own interest maximization.
Stuart Wilks-Heeg
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343802
- eISBN:
- 9781447304159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343802.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines the relationship between the politics of policy evaluation in the context of the New Labour government's urban policy. It outlines and assesses conventional models of ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between the politics of policy evaluation in the context of the New Labour government's urban policy. It outlines and assesses conventional models of urban-policy evaluation, and considers urban-policy evaluation under New Labour, focusing particularly on the extent to which evaluation approaches have embraced wider concerns to promote community leadership in urban policy. The chapter argues that the failure to engage communities in the evaluation process represents a significant Achilles' heel for contemporary urban policy and describes alternative evaluation philosophies that have emerged in the USALess
This chapter examines the relationship between the politics of policy evaluation in the context of the New Labour government's urban policy. It outlines and assesses conventional models of urban-policy evaluation, and considers urban-policy evaluation under New Labour, focusing particularly on the extent to which evaluation approaches have embraced wider concerns to promote community leadership in urban policy. The chapter argues that the failure to engage communities in the evaluation process represents a significant Achilles' heel for contemporary urban policy and describes alternative evaluation philosophies that have emerged in the USA
Tony Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861341914
- eISBN:
- 9781447304265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861341914.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
Of all the areas discussed, urban policy perhaps faces some of the most formidable problems in identifying what works. Nonetheless, this chapter shows that the rhetoric of evidence figures large in ...
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Of all the areas discussed, urban policy perhaps faces some of the most formidable problems in identifying what works. Nonetheless, this chapter shows that the rhetoric of evidence figures large in the justification of many of the schemes aimed at improving the urban environment. Evaluation of the success (or otherwise) of many such schemes has been attempted. The chapter concentrates on policy directed at the multifaceted problems of cities, in particular those concentrated in specific neighbourhoods where problems of housing, health, employment, and crime seem to reinforce each other and demand a multiagency approach. Naturally enough, methodological problems are legion – in particular, identifying suitable outcomes, identifying unwanted effects or displacements, and making causal attributions between any outcomes obtained and the activities undertaken. The response has been a growing body of case material, which provides rich individual accounts but few robust generalisations.Less
Of all the areas discussed, urban policy perhaps faces some of the most formidable problems in identifying what works. Nonetheless, this chapter shows that the rhetoric of evidence figures large in the justification of many of the schemes aimed at improving the urban environment. Evaluation of the success (or otherwise) of many such schemes has been attempted. The chapter concentrates on policy directed at the multifaceted problems of cities, in particular those concentrated in specific neighbourhoods where problems of housing, health, employment, and crime seem to reinforce each other and demand a multiagency approach. Naturally enough, methodological problems are legion – in particular, identifying suitable outcomes, identifying unwanted effects or displacements, and making causal attributions between any outcomes obtained and the activities undertaken. The response has been a growing body of case material, which provides rich individual accounts but few robust generalisations.
Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem, and Taner Osman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804789400
- eISBN:
- 9780804796026
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804789400.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
In 1970, the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco had almost identical levels of income per resident. In 2010, the San Francisco Bay Area was almost one third richer than Los Angeles, ...
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In 1970, the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco had almost identical levels of income per resident. In 2010, the San Francisco Bay Area was almost one third richer than Los Angeles, which had slipped from 4th rank among cities in the United States to 25th. The usual reasons for explaining such change—good or bad luck, different types of immigrants, tax rates, housing costs, and local economic policies, the pool of skilled labor—do not account for why they perform so differently. Instead, the divergence in economic development of major city regions is largely due to the different capacities for organizational change in their firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, this book sheds new light on the deep causes of economic development and challenges many conventional notions about it. By studying two regions in unprecedented levels of depth and precision, it develops lessons for the field of economic development studies in general and for urban regions around the world.Less
In 1970, the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco had almost identical levels of income per resident. In 2010, the San Francisco Bay Area was almost one third richer than Los Angeles, which had slipped from 4th rank among cities in the United States to 25th. The usual reasons for explaining such change—good or bad luck, different types of immigrants, tax rates, housing costs, and local economic policies, the pool of skilled labor—do not account for why they perform so differently. Instead, the divergence in economic development of major city regions is largely due to the different capacities for organizational change in their firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, this book sheds new light on the deep causes of economic development and challenges many conventional notions about it. By studying two regions in unprecedented levels of depth and precision, it develops lessons for the field of economic development studies in general and for urban regions around the world.
Rowland Atkinson and Gesa Helms (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348159
- eISBN:
- 9781447303329
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348159.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This book adds weight to an emerging argument which suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilise, pacify, and regulate crime and ...
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This book adds weight to an emerging argument which suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilise, pacify, and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance that is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. It has three key themes: the theories, strategies, and assumptions underpinning the securing of ‘Urban Renaissance’; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the role of communities within these agendas. The book provides focused discussions and engagement with these issues from a range of scholars who examine policy connections that can be traced between social, urban, and crime policy and the wider processes of regeneration in British towns and cities. It also seeks to develop our understanding of policies, theories, and practices surrounding contemporary British urban policy, where a move from concerns with ‘urban renaissance’ to those of sustainable communities clearly intersects with issues of community security, policing, and disorder.Less
This book adds weight to an emerging argument which suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilise, pacify, and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance that is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. It has three key themes: the theories, strategies, and assumptions underpinning the securing of ‘Urban Renaissance’; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the role of communities within these agendas. The book provides focused discussions and engagement with these issues from a range of scholars who examine policy connections that can be traced between social, urban, and crime policy and the wider processes of regeneration in British towns and cities. It also seeks to develop our understanding of policies, theories, and practices surrounding contemporary British urban policy, where a move from concerns with ‘urban renaissance’ to those of sustainable communities clearly intersects with issues of community security, policing, and disorder.
Rob Imrie and Mike Raco
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343802
- eISBN:
- 9781447304159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343802.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This introductory chapter explains the objective of this book, which is to explore and explain the ways in which particular conceptions of community in Great Britain have underpinned urban policy and ...
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This introductory chapter explains the objective of this book, which is to explore and explain the ways in which particular conceptions of community in Great Britain have underpinned urban policy and are a feature of New Labour's policy programmes for cities. This book describes the plethora of approaches to the regeneration of cities adopted by the Labour government and its various policy programmes, and evaluates how Labour's pronouncements about devolution of power and self-help are being translated into settings for individuals and their social networks to influence the regeneration of cities. It argues that the substance of urban policy has always been associated with particular discourses of community.Less
This introductory chapter explains the objective of this book, which is to explore and explain the ways in which particular conceptions of community in Great Britain have underpinned urban policy and are a feature of New Labour's policy programmes for cities. This book describes the plethora of approaches to the regeneration of cities adopted by the Labour government and its various policy programmes, and evaluates how Labour's pronouncements about devolution of power and self-help are being translated into settings for individuals and their social networks to influence the regeneration of cities. It argues that the substance of urban policy has always been associated with particular discourses of community.
Loretta Lees
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343802
- eISBN:
- 9781447304159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343802.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines the discursive contexts within which urban policy is being developed in Great Britain. It describes the British vision of urban renaissance in the context of the government's ...
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This chapter examines the discursive contexts within which urban policy is being developed in Great Britain. It describes the British vision of urban renaissance in the context of the government's Urban Task Force (UTF) report, Towards an urban renaissance, and the recent Urban White Paper (UWP) on urban policy, Our towns and cities – The future: Delivering an urban renaissance. The chapter suggests that the government's urban-renaissance initiatives can be interpreted as gentrification initiatives, and thus are likely to come unstuck due to the mismatch between their inevitably class-dividing effects and the socially just, mixed, and inclusive city that is the government's ostensible objective.Less
This chapter examines the discursive contexts within which urban policy is being developed in Great Britain. It describes the British vision of urban renaissance in the context of the government's Urban Task Force (UTF) report, Towards an urban renaissance, and the recent Urban White Paper (UWP) on urban policy, Our towns and cities – The future: Delivering an urban renaissance. The chapter suggests that the government's urban-renaissance initiatives can be interpreted as gentrification initiatives, and thus are likely to come unstuck due to the mismatch between their inevitably class-dividing effects and the socially just, mixed, and inclusive city that is the government's ostensible objective.
Rene Peter Hohmann
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447310785
- eISBN:
- 9781447310808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447310785.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The chapter provides an overview of the legacy and emergence of Area-based Initiatives in England and Germany. In England a considerable history of area-targeted policy approaches to the ...
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The chapter provides an overview of the legacy and emergence of Area-based Initiatives in England and Germany. In England a considerable history of area-targeted policy approaches to the concentration of economic deprivation in cities can be noted in concept Germany recently discovered the need for a national initiative for disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter also reviews the evolution of urban policies during a time in both countries in which two Social Democratic Parties had taken over central government responsibilities and were actively transforming the conception of welfare delivery in both countries.Less
The chapter provides an overview of the legacy and emergence of Area-based Initiatives in England and Germany. In England a considerable history of area-targeted policy approaches to the concentration of economic deprivation in cities can be noted in concept Germany recently discovered the need for a national initiative for disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter also reviews the evolution of urban policies during a time in both countries in which two Social Democratic Parties had taken over central government responsibilities and were actively transforming the conception of welfare delivery in both countries.
Deborah Posel
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198273349
- eISBN:
- 9780191684036
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198273349.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter discusses the labour bureaux system and assesses how and why it failed to ‘rationalise’ the urban labour market in line with the prescriptions of the Native Affairs Department (NAD) ...
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This chapter discusses the labour bureaux system and assesses how and why it failed to ‘rationalise’ the urban labour market in line with the prescriptions of the Native Affairs Department (NAD) policy. Proper labour planning in the cities and on the farms was the ultimate objective of the labour bureaux, and the way to achieve this goal on the urban market was to ensure that the number of African job-seekers in any city matched the number of vacancies. However, the labour bureaux system brought worsening labour surpluses and shortages, and failed to carry out the NAD's labour canalisation programme effectively. It exercised too little control over the urban market to have been able to impose the Urban Labour Preference Policy (ULPP) effectively and it also imposed too much control to prevent the simultaneous build-up of labour shortages in various categories.Less
This chapter discusses the labour bureaux system and assesses how and why it failed to ‘rationalise’ the urban labour market in line with the prescriptions of the Native Affairs Department (NAD) policy. Proper labour planning in the cities and on the farms was the ultimate objective of the labour bureaux, and the way to achieve this goal on the urban market was to ensure that the number of African job-seekers in any city matched the number of vacancies. However, the labour bureaux system brought worsening labour surpluses and shortages, and failed to carry out the NAD's labour canalisation programme effectively. It exercised too little control over the urban market to have been able to impose the Urban Labour Preference Policy (ULPP) effectively and it also imposed too much control to prevent the simultaneous build-up of labour shortages in various categories.
Rowland Atkinson and Gesa Helms
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348159
- eISBN:
- 9781447303329
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348159.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of crime, community, and urban policy in urban renaissance in Great Britain. The book discusses the theoretical ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of crime, community, and urban policy in urban renaissance in Great Britain. The book discusses the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the urban renaissance and crime and disorder agendas, and their growing intersection. It also examines in detail existing and emerging political agendas and policies, and explores in depth different aspects of the role of communities within the emergent crime and renewal agenda. One of the author's core contentions in the book is that criminal-justice and policing systems have extended their remit and relevance to urban policy and regeneration initiatives through a process of ‘governing through crime’.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of crime, community, and urban policy in urban renaissance in Great Britain. The book discusses the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the urban renaissance and crime and disorder agendas, and their growing intersection. It also examines in detail existing and emerging political agendas and policies, and explores in depth different aspects of the role of communities within the emergent crime and renewal agenda. One of the author's core contentions in the book is that criminal-justice and policing systems have extended their remit and relevance to urban policy and regeneration initiatives through a process of ‘governing through crime’.
Peter Matthews (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447324157
- eISBN:
- 9781447324171
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324157.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, ...
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After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book provides an essential antidote to those who claim that culture and society can replicate the role of the state. Based on research from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme and with a unique set of case studies drawing on artistic and cultural community work. The book sets out the argument that post-2010, UK urban policy has ended what was termed “regeneration” policy. In the current context, driven further after May 2015, communities, towns and cities are left to fend for themselves. The book concludes by arguing the role of the university in its relationship with urban communities also has to change with this context. The resources of universities can help local communities better understand the challenges they face and possible solutions.Less
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book provides an essential antidote to those who claim that culture and society can replicate the role of the state. Based on research from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme and with a unique set of case studies drawing on artistic and cultural community work. The book sets out the argument that post-2010, UK urban policy has ended what was termed “regeneration” policy. In the current context, driven further after May 2015, communities, towns and cities are left to fend for themselves. The book concludes by arguing the role of the university in its relationship with urban communities also has to change with this context. The resources of universities can help local communities better understand the challenges they face and possible solutions.
Allan Cochrane
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343802
- eISBN:
- 9781447304159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343802.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines whether the practice of urban policy in Great Britain should be geared towards empowerment or incorporation. It explains that unlike other forms of social policy, which are ...
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This chapter examines whether the practice of urban policy in Great Britain should be geared towards empowerment or incorporation. It explains that unlike other forms of social policy, which are defined through the identification of problems faced by particular groups, urban policy is defined through the places in which those problems find their expression. The chapter discusses the differences in approaches to urban policy within Britain's component nations and suggests that differences have been reinforced by devolution.Less
This chapter examines whether the practice of urban policy in Great Britain should be geared towards empowerment or incorporation. It explains that unlike other forms of social policy, which are defined through the identification of problems faced by particular groups, urban policy is defined through the places in which those problems find their expression. The chapter discusses the differences in approaches to urban policy within Britain's component nations and suggests that differences have been reinforced by devolution.
Patrick Le Galès
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424938
- eISBN:
- 9781447305538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424938.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter looks at what a social mix really means and the roles of ‘scale’, ‘context’ and ‘theory’ in understanding it.
This chapter looks at what a social mix really means and the roles of ‘scale’, ‘context’ and ‘theory’ in understanding it.
Lenore Lauri Newman and Katherine Alexandra Newman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036573
- eISBN:
- 9780262341554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036573.003.0013
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
The reintroduction of food trucks to Vancouver responds to widespread public demand, yet has also been taken up as another tool of urban governance. Licensing restrictions are used to further ...
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The reintroduction of food trucks to Vancouver responds to widespread public demand, yet has also been taken up as another tool of urban governance. Licensing restrictions are used to further municipal policy priorities, thus incorporating street food into city branding and urban redevelopment strategies. Although crafted to foster liveability, food truck licensing is also expected to advance the goal of making Vancouver the Greenest City and to project an image of a healthy, sustainable, multicultural city. While street food is being made increasingly accessible, it is simultaneously becoming a tool of biopolitical regulation. As food trucks participate in shaping urban space, they risk contributing to gentrification and the displacement of the very residents this increased accessibility is meant to serve.Less
The reintroduction of food trucks to Vancouver responds to widespread public demand, yet has also been taken up as another tool of urban governance. Licensing restrictions are used to further municipal policy priorities, thus incorporating street food into city branding and urban redevelopment strategies. Although crafted to foster liveability, food truck licensing is also expected to advance the goal of making Vancouver the Greenest City and to project an image of a healthy, sustainable, multicultural city. While street food is being made increasingly accessible, it is simultaneously becoming a tool of biopolitical regulation. As food trucks participate in shaping urban space, they risk contributing to gentrification and the displacement of the very residents this increased accessibility is meant to serve.
Gary Bridge, Tim Butler, and Loretta Lees (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424938
- eISBN:
- 9781447305538
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424938.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Encouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts ...
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Encouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth.Less
Encouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth.
Sara Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740411
- eISBN:
- 9781501740428
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740411.001.0001
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As this book shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are ...
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City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As this book shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. This book focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. The book uses a framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. It then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.Less
City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As this book shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. This book focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. The book uses a framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. It then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.
