Neighbourhood renewal and housing markets : community engagement in the US and UK

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 Notes

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

Harris BeiderEd Ferrari and Peter LeeXavier de Souza BriggsJerilyn Perine and Michael H. SchillAustin Barber and Rick Craves and Alan MurieSusan J. PopkinDavid RobinsonLucille McEwenDavid MullinsHarris BeiderStephen HallJames DeFilippisRob Rowlands and Pauline CardHarris Beider

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Contributors	p. x
1 Introduction	p. 1
Policy and Demographic Change	p. 29
2 Changing Spatial, Ethnic and Tenure Patterns in England	p. 31
3 More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race and Opportunity	p. 63
Changing Cities and Neighbourhoods	p. 89
4 Reflecting on New York City's Housing Policy: 1987 to 2004	p. 91
5 Changing Housing Markets, Race and Community: Policy and Practice in Birmingham	p. 115
6 Race and Public Housing Transformation in the United States	p. 138
7 Living Parallel Lives? Housing, Residential Segregation and Community Cohesion in England	p. 163
Institutions and Change Agents	p. 187
8 Resistance and Change: Political and Community Mobilization in Harlem	p. 189
9 The Transformation of UK Housing Associations: Responding to Change	p. 207
10 The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Community Development Corporations and Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Associations	p. 230
Conflict, Participation and Power	p. 247
11 Housing, Regeneration and Change in the UK: Estate Regeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London	p. 249
12 Erasing the Community in Order to Save It? Reconstructing Community and Property in Community Development	p. 271
13 Communities, Networks and Power: Is there a Localization of Decision-Making?	p. 290
Conclusion	p. 315
14 Towards a New Policy Agenda?	p. 317
Glossary	p. 339
Index	p. 345

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