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Urban renaissance?: New Labour, community and urban policy

Rob Imrie and Mike Raco

Abstract

This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities; that is, the revival of citizenship, democratic renewal, and the participation of communities to spearhead urban change. In doing so, it explores the meaning, and relevance, of ‘community’ as a focus for urban renaissance. The book interrogates the conceptual and ideological content of New Labour's conceptions of community and, through the use of case studies, evaluates how far, and with what effects, such conceptions are shaping contemporary urban policy and practice.

Keywords: New Labour, revitalisation, cities, revival of citizenship, democratic renewal, urban change

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9781861343802
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861343802.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Rob Imrie, editor

Mike Raco, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Notes on the editors

Notes on the contributors

Preface

Part One New Labour and the turn to community regeneration

One Community and the changing nature of urban policy

Rob Imrie, and Mike Raco

Two Social capital, regeneration and urban policy

Ade Kearns

Three Visions of ‘urban renaissance’: the Urban Task Force report and the Urban White Paper

Loretta Lees

Part Two Community involvement in urban policy

Four Strategic, multilevel neighbourhood regeneration: an outward-looking approach at last?

Annette Hastings

Five Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration

Rob Atkinson

Six Communities at the heart? Community action and urban policy in the UK

Peter North

Seven Cultural justice and addressing ‘social exclusion’: a case study of a Single Regeneration Budget project in Blackbird Leys, Oxford

Zoë Morrison

Eight Disability and the discourses of the Single Regeneration Budget

Claire Edwards

Nine Citizenship, community and participation in small towns: a case study of regeneration partnerships

Bill Edwards, Mark Goodwin, and Michael Woods

Ten Economy, equity or empowerment? New Labour, communities and urban policy evaluation

Stuart Wilks-Heeg

Part Three The future of community in urban policy

Eleven The new urban policy: towards empowerment or incorporation? The practice of urban policy

Allan Cochrane

Twelve New Labour, community and the future of Britain's urban renaissance

Mike Raco

End Matter

References

Index