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Neighbourhood renewal and housing markets community engagement in the US and UK

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Oxford Blackwell 2007Description: xvii, 350p. 25cmISBN:
  • 9781405134100
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.52 $2 18
Partial contents:
Changing spatial, ethnic and tenure patterns in England -- The changing geography of race and opportunity -- Reflecting on New York City's housing policy: 1987 to 2004 -- Changing housing markets, race and community: policy and practice in Birmingham -- Race and public housing transformation in the United States -- Living parallel lives?: housing, residential segregation and community cohesion in England -- Resistance and change: political and community mobilization in Harlem -- The transformation of UK housing associations: responding to change -- The rise and fall (and rise) of community development corporations and black and minority ethnic housing associations -- Housing, regeneration and change in the UK: estate regeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London -- Erasing the community in order to save it? -- Communities, networks and power: is there a localization of decision making -- Towards a new policy agenda
Summary: Discusses changes in policy strategies for urban renewal in inner cities, and how cities and neighbourhoods are changing in terms of demographics. Considers the institutions and change agents, participation and conflict within communities, governance, and the changes in power relationships within communities and institutions.
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Book London Books 711.52 BEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 30072317
Book London Books 711.52 BEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30073607

Changing spatial, ethnic and tenure patterns in England -- The changing geography of race and opportunity -- Reflecting on New York City's housing policy: 1987 to 2004 -- Changing housing markets, race and community: policy and practice in Birmingham -- Race and public housing transformation in the United States -- Living parallel lives?: housing, residential segregation and community cohesion in England -- Resistance and change: political and community mobilization in Harlem -- The transformation of UK housing associations: responding to change -- The rise and fall (and rise) of community development corporations and black and minority ethnic housing associations -- Housing, regeneration and change in the UK: estate regeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London -- Erasing the community in order to save it? -- Communities, networks and power: is there a localization of decision making -- Towards a new policy agenda

Discusses changes in policy strategies for urban renewal in inner cities, and how cities and neighbourhoods are changing in terms of demographics. Considers the institutions and change agents, participation and conflict within communities, governance, and the changes in power relationships within communities and institutions.

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