Hollow Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in the Inner City

Abstract

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.

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