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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877736403321

Titolo

Neighbourhood renewal & housing markets : community engagement in the US & UK / / edited byHarris Beider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-281-32118-4

9786611321185

0-470-75787-6

0-470-75785-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Real estate issues

Altri autori (Persone)

BeiderHarris

Disciplina

307.3/4160973

307.34160973

Soggetti

Urban renewal - United States

Urban renewal - Great Britain

Community development, Urban - United States

Community development, Urban - Great Britain

Housing policy - United States

Housing policy - Great Britain

Urban policy - United States

Urban policy - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Neighbourhood Renewal & Housing Markets: Community engagement in the US & UK; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; POLICY AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE; 2 Changing Spatial, Ethnic and Tenure Patterns in England; 3 More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race and Opportunity; CHANGING CITIES AND NEIGHBOURHOODS; 4 Reflecting on New York City's Housing Policy: 1987 to 2004; 5 Changing Housing Markets, Race and Community: Policy and Practice in Birmingham; 6 Race and Public Housing Transformation in the United States

7 Living Parallel Lives? Housing, Residential Segregation and Community Cohesion in EnglandINSTITUTIONS AND CHANGE AGENTS;



8 Resistance and Change: Political and Community Mobilization in Harlem; 9 The Transformation of UK Housing Associations: Responding to Change; 10 The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Community Development Corporations and Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Associations; CONFLICT, PARTICIPATION AND POWER; 11 Housing, Regeneration and Change in the UK: Estate Regeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London

12 Erasing the Community in Order to Save It? Reconstructing Community and Property in Community Development13 Communities, Networks and Power: Is there a Localization of Decision-Making?; CONCLUSION; 14 Towards a New Policy Agenda?; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, the renewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods in cities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality in cities has remained at the forefront of policy and academic debate across Europe and North America. This book provides an important new contribution to these debates and highlights specific issues and developments which are crucial to an understanding of debates about residence, renewal and community empowerment. engages with the urban regeneration, development and housing aspect