The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

ISBN-13: 9780415035491 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str.

Professor Nicholas Deakin

Opis

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, policy for inner city regeneration underwent a transformation from a reliance on central and local government activity and the use of public funds, to a much heavier dependence on private sector activities and private investment. This new strategy was based on a conviction on the part of government that the engine of enterprise could achieve in the inner cities what local government had so signally failed to do. It consisted of using public resources as incentives to attract commerce, business and industry back to designated sectors in or near to inner city areas. Regeneration would be development-led; enterprise activity would burgeon in the old wastelands; new jobs would be created; the inner city economies would be revitalized and a dependent population energized by the culture of enterprise. The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City evaluates the effectiveness of this strategy in alleviating urban deprivation. The authors examines four case studies - two Urban Development Corporations, one local government-private sector, and one purely private development - and make detailed analyses of job creation.

Recenzje

`a fascinating and highly readable account of the development of urban policy over the last 20 years ... will appeal to students of public policy and urban studies as well as to practitioners in central and local government and organisations involved in inner city initiatives.' - Local Government Studies

`... is a captivating and timely book which is well written and will be essential reading for students and lecturers of urban policy and planning, professionals and for central and local government administrators.' - Town & Country Planning

Spis treści

1 Enterprise as policy 2 From public provision to private enterprise 3 Is inner city policy about urban deprivation? 4 The logic of the enterprise strategy 5 Trafford Park: Manchester’s economic larder 6 Docklands: Flagship or Titanic? 7 Heartlands—a different approach to partnership 8 Private enterprise alone 9 The reach of private enterprise 10 Social policies for the inner city 11 Private investment as public policy

O autorze

Nicholas Deakin is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham, and John Edwards is Reader in Social Policy at the University of London.