In Britain, current interest in social balance has arisen partly as a response to increased
management difficulties in social housing and partly in response to the concepts of the …

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK,
incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central …

It is fifty years since the first edition of this book was published. There have been many
changes in the style and content of planning in the UK since then and this is reflected in the …

Urban policies often focus on certain areas within a city. Nowadays area-based policies are
popular in almost every Western European country (Andersen 2001; Murie 2002), but also in …

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and
scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and …

The neighbourhoods and social networks we examined in the previous chapter have been
described as 'mesosystems'–it is these that link individual agency with social structures and …

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in
certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or excluded. Traditionally these were …

Growing income differentiation in society, diversification of housing supply and selective
population mobility are resulting in increasing socio-spatial differentiation in Czech cities …

THE following examination goes against the current trend in policy on urban regeneration
partnerships by relaxing the assumption that they represent virtuous circles of mutually …

Like many other Western European governments, the Swedish government has launched
an area‐based urban policy in order to solve the problems of the distressed …