Securing an urban renaissance: Crime, community, and British urban policy - Softcover

 
9781861348142: Securing an urban renaissance: Crime, community, and British urban policy
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ISBN 10: 1861348142 ISBN 13: 9781861348142
Publisher: Policy Press, 2007

Synopsis

This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that policies to make cities better are inextricably linked to an attempt to pacify and regulate crime and disorder. It provides discussions from a range of scholars examining policy connections that can

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About the Author

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Books: Better society

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Publisher
Policy Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1861348142
ISBN 13 
9781861348142
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304
Editor
Atkinson Rowland

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