Estate regeneration and its discontents : public housing, place and inequality in London /
Paul Watt.
Bok Engelsk 2021
| Omfang | 1 online resource (1 online resource 522 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Also issued in print: 2021.. - Front Cover -- Series -- Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures, tables and photographs -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Housing in an unequal city -- Estate regeneration -- Two discourses of estate regeneration -- Rationale and methodology -- Overview -- Place -- Place attachment, belonging, images and myths -- Neighbourhood, community and belonging -- Inequalities, class and values -- Urban inequalities: marginalisation. - Large estates -- Small to medium-sized estates -- Resident interviewees -- Part II Estates before regeneration -- 5 Marginalisation and inclusion -- Public housing and marginalisation -- Residualisation and socio-tenurial polarisation in London -- Social housing, class analysis and socioeconomic groups -- Employment and socioeconomic groups on London estates -- Gender and local jobs -- Racism, diversity and social inclusion -- Tenure preferences -- Housing histories: continuity and change -- Entering council housing: 1950s to 1970s -- Entering council housing: 1980-2010s. - The contraction of public housing in London3 -- Public housing conditions -- Conclusion -- 3 Urban policy: estate regeneration -- From old to new urban renewal1 -- Early estate regeneration: 1980s to 1990s -- London's estates -- Comprehensive Estates Initiative in Hackney, 1992-2003 -- Peckham Partnership SRB in Southwark, 1994-2004 -- Contemporary estate regeneration: 1990s to 2010s -- New Labour -- New Deal for Communities3 -- Austerity -- From community new deals to estate densification projects -- Place myths and neighbourhood effects -- Regeneration rationale5. - Urban inequalities: gentrification and the elite city -- Dispossession: expulsions, displacement and un-homing -- The structure of the book -- Part I Policy analysis and research context -- 2 Housing policy: the rise and fall of public housing -- The wobbly pillar of the welfare state -- Towards housing decommodification: the expansionary period of public housing -- Municipalism and labourism -- Keynesian welfare state -- Recommodification: the contractionary period of public housing -- Local government proto-Thatcherite housing policy -- Roll back to roll on and on neoliberalism. - Urban renaissance: the entrepreneurial city and entrepreneurial boroughs -- Comparing early and contemporary estate regeneration schemes involving demolition and rebuild -- Regeneration costs -- Conclusion -- 4 The research boroughs and their estates -- Newham -- Carpenters estate1 -- Canning Town and Custom House -- Barnet -- West Hendon estate4 -- Hackney -- Woodberry Down estate -- Northwold estate -- Haringey -- Lambeth -- Clapham Park estate10 -- Cressingham Gardens, Central Hill and Westbury estates11 -- Southwark -- Tower Hamlets -- Supplementary boroughs -- Comparing the estates. - Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised communities in London, showing their experiences and perspectives. He demonstrates the dramatic impacts that regeneration and gentrification can have on socio-spatial inequality.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 1-4473-2918-X. - 1-4473-2920-1
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