Neighbourhood Renewal and Housing Markets Community Engagement in the US and the UK

by Beider, Harris

• ISBN13: 9780470757871
• ISBN10: 0470757876
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 aspects of real estate
  
• places debates on polarisation, inequality and race in a city-based structure
  
• provides up-to-date account of policy developments

Author Biography

Harris Beider is a Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies in the University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.

POLICY AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE.

2. A United Kingdom? 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: 1987-2004.

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 England.

INSTITUTIONS AND CHANGE AGENTS.

8. Resistance and Change: Political and Community Mobilisation in Harlem.

9. The Transformation of English Housing Associations: Responding to Change.

10. The 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? Reconstruction Community and Property in Community Development.

13. Communities, Networks and Power: Is there a Localisation of Decision-Making.

CONCLUSION.

14. Towards a New Policy Agenda