Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

Sustainable development is a widely used term, which has been increasingly influential on
UK planning, housing and urban policy in recent years. Debates about sustainability no …

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 …

The global public spaces literature has been critical of contemporary manifestations of
public space on a number of grounds. This article reports on a research project that …

Over the past three decades, research in urban politics or increasingly urban governance
reveals a landscape powerfully reflecting what might now be defined as a post-political …

It is a little over 30 years since Jim Callaghan's Labour Government passed the 1978 Inner
Urban Areas Act. The following year marked a shift in power to Margaret Thatcher's …

Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration,
while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book …

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention'in
Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring …

This paper discusses the urban injustices of New Labour's “new urban renewal”, that is the
state‐led gentrification of British council estates, undertaken through the guise of mixed …

This paper undertakes a comparison of two regrowing and two shrinking European cities in
order to identify the factors driving demographic regrowth and economic recovery of cities …