Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgements

pp v-v

Notes on the editors

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-ix

Preface

pp x-x

Part One - New Labour and the turn to community regeneration

pp 1-2

one - Community and the changing nature of urban policy

pp 3-36

two - Social capital, regeneration and urban policy

pp 37-60

three - Visions of ‘urban renaissance’: the Urban Task Force report and the Urban White Paper

pp 61-82

Part Two - Community involvement in urban policy

pp 83-84

four - Strategic, multilevel neighbourhood regeneration: an outward-looking approach at last?

pp 85-100

five - Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration

pp 101-120

six - Communities at the heart? Community action and urban policy in the UK

pp 121-138

seven - Cultural justice and addressing ‘social exclusion’: a case study of a Single Regeneration Budget project in Blackbird Leys, Oxford

pp 139-162

eight - Disability and the discourses of the Single Regeneration Budget

pp 163-180

nine - Citizenship, community and participation in small towns: a case study of regeneration partnerships

pp 181-204

ten - Economy, equity or empowerment? New Labour, communities and urban policy evaluation

pp 205-220

Part Three - The future of community in urban policy

pp 221-222

eleven - The new urban policy: towards empowerment or incorporation? The practice of urban policy

pp 223-234

twelve - New Labour, community and the future of Britain’s urban renaissance

pp 235-250

References

pp 251-286

Index

pp 287-294