After urban regeneration: Communities, Policy and Place (Connected Communities) - Hardcover

O'Brien, Dave; Matthews, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447324153 ISBN 13: 9781447324157

Publisher: Policy Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 Councils 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.

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Review:

"In a gentrifying urban world, rhetoric can often run ahead of evidence. This book skillfully redresses this balance by compiling empirical outcomes of a number of fascinating and detailed projects under the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected Communities project. The editors weave a compelling empirically focused, but theoretically informed, narrative that exposes the harsh realities of a post-regeneration urban landscape."--Oli Mould, Royal Holloway, University of London "Times Higher Education "

"A genuinely fresh, and admirably provocative, attempt to reshape the way we seek to understand the evolving urban policy agenda."--Housing Studies

"An accessible piece of literature that will add to the knowledge of many academics in this field."--Town Planning Review

"After Urban Regeneration is an excellent book and it is very well crafted and organized. The chapters are critical in tone and characterized by incisive critiques of community and urban policy and practice. There is nothing like this on the market that examines the impact of localism on communities, and the diverse ways in which community groups are cultivating new knowledges and practices of self government."--Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London

"This important contribution to the urban policy and regeneration literature is the first major text to critically examine urban policy in the United Kingdom since 2008 and proposes that we have entered a period of 'post-regeneration' in the United Kingdom. This contribution will be of use to academics, policy makers, and communities alike."--Andrew Tallon, University of the West of England

About the Author:

Dr. Dave O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy, at ICCE, Goldsmiths College, University of London. His most recent book is Cultural Policy, published by Routledge. He hosts the New Books In Critical Theory podcast. Dr. Peter Matthews is Lecturer in Social Policy at SASS, University of Stirling. He publishes widely in urban studies, planning, social policy and housing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447324153
• ISBN 13: 9781447324157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208