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 will appeal to scholars and students in geography, urban studies, planning, sociology, law and art as well as policy makers and community workers.
FoUR Is urban regeneration criminogenic? Lynn Hancock This chapter examines some of the taken-for-granted assumptions in the relationship between urban regeneration and crime and disorder reduction and opens them up to critical scrutiny. Against a backdrop where public–private partnerships are vigorously marketing their localities in efforts to secure inward investment, the place of crime and disorder in these imaginaries are outlined. The chapter comments on the assumptions underpinning neighbourhood regeneration and in particular their relationships
17 ONE ‘Holism’ and urban regeneration Peter Ambrose Context As the Introduction makes clear, much recent thinking and policy formation is predicated on the need for better ‘partnership working’ in the form of ‘interagency’ and ‘multiagency’ cooperation both in the development of urban regeneration programmes and in the quality of services delivered. Other words and phrases frequently employed in this context include synergy, holistic approaches and, less elegantly, joined-up thinking (see Appendix to this chapter for glossary). In this chapter, which seeks to
twelve Community participation and urban regeneration in Britain Rob Atkinson and Stephen Cope Introduction The issue of community participation in urban regeneration has received considerable attention in both Britain and the United States since the end of the 1980s (Hambleton and Taylor, 1993; Robinson and Shaw, 1991). This attention lies in stark contrast to developments in the 1980s when governments, inspired by neo-liberal theories (Green, 1987; King, 1987), stressed the role of markets and the private sector as the most effective method of
Policy & Politics vol 28 no 4 493 © The Policy Press, 2000 • ISSN 0305 5736 Youth involvement in urban regeneration: hard lessons, future directions Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Annette Hastings and Keith Kintrea English This article reviews the nature and effectiveness of youth involvement in urban regeneration. Drawing on the findings of a substantial UK-wide study, it highlights the limited achievements of youth participation in urban regeneration thus far and the profound difficulties involved in promoting youth empowerment. However, it argues that there are
497 Policy & Politics vol 36 no 4 • 497-520 (2008) • 10.1332/147084408X349756 © The Policy Press, 2008 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: community • urban regeneration • complex adaptive systems • Ireland Final submission February 2008 • Acceptance March 2008 Vision and reality: community involvement in Irish urban regeneration Jenny Muir and Mary Lee Rhodes This article examines the processes and outcomes of community involvement in six Irish urban regeneration case studies, three in Dublin and three in Belfast. The findings are part of a wider study using a
61 FIVE Microsolutions for megaproblems: what works in urban regeneration policy? Max Nathan1 Introduction This chapter sets ‘Connected Communities’ in the context of current thinking on urban regeneration and local economic development, in particular, the state of area-based policies in the current ‘post- regeneration’ era (see Chapter One, this volume). The chapter first provides a brief run-through of post-1997 state-led regeneration in the UK, tracing the shift in England from holistic neighbourhood- level social inclusion initiatives to economically
4 THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL POLICY IN URBAN REGENERATION STRATEGIES Ron Griffiths It has become common to find arts and culture-related policies playing a key part in the urban revitalisation strategies pursued by city authorities in Europe and North America. This article has three main pur- poses. First, it considers the factors which have led city authorities to place emphasis on culture-related policies, looking in par- ticular at the way cities have been affected by changes in the organisation of produc- tion and in their class composition. Second, it examines
101 Addressing urban social exclusion FIVE Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration Rob Atkinson Introduction This chapter examines one of the ways in which urban regeneration under New Labour has sought to address social exclusion and facilitate social inclusion through the involvement of local communities in regeneration partnerships1. ‘Community’, and associated notions such as social cohesion and social capital, has played a central role in the discourses structuring urban policy under New Labour (see Part One of
95 Policy & Politics vol 33 no 1 • 95–116 (2005) Religion and urban regeneration: a place for faith? Key words: faith communities • urban regeneration • neighbourhood • social cohesion Religion and urban regeneration: a place for faith? Robert Furbey and Marie Macey Final submission 05 May 04 • Acceptance 18 May 04 © The Policy Press, 2005 • ISSN 0305 5736 English The British government has identified ‘faith communities’ as a neglected resource in urban regeneration. This article first explores the context of official support for faith involvement in urban and
