Hollow Promises
Rhetoric and Reality in the Inner Cities
Published on 7. March 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7201-2062-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines critically the various concepts of the inner city; looks at examples of urban decline and renewal, both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere; and, asking whether the "inner city" is more than a rhetorical device, looks beyond the political and theoretical notion of inner city problems to the impact of policies on people's lives. Contributors include professional planners and academics from departments of sociology, politics, race relation and geography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8ill.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7201-2062-2 (9780720120622)
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Content
Part 1 Policies: rhetoric and reality; hollow promises?; issues and agendas in the inner city; Merseyside development corporation, 1981-1989; physical regeneration, accountability and economic challenge; London docklands development corporation; re-investment in residential neighbourhoods; the theory and practice of inner city programmes. Part 2 Misconceptions: urban social change, salvation and gentrification; gentrification and regeneration; women, gender relations and the inner city; skills do not equal jobs; current misconceptions in tackling unemployment. Part 3 Alternative realities: towards an alternative politics of the inner city; the financial explosion and the community control of capital in Baltimore; black working clas entrepreneurship in Jamaica and the United Kingdom; those French inner cities; comparative comments on the urban crisis in Britain and France.