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This extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare.

• An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s.
  
• Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism.
  
• The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject.
  
• Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of...

Praise for the First Edition: 'A clear and concise introduction to comparative social policy. It provides students with a framework in which to analyze the British welfare regime and to compare it with those developed and developing elsewhere' - Hilary Graham, Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Warwick This extensively revised Second Edition, provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis of welfare regimes, the book show how the welfare systems of individual countries can only be understood thorugh exploring the...

This extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare.

• An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s.
  
• Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism.
  
• The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject.
  
• Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of...

Provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis of welfare regimes, this book shows how the welfare systems of individual countries can only be understood through exploring the wider global context.

Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global-local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas.
The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the...

In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference and social interaction have never been more pressing.

Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council funded study of different locations across England, Lived Experiences of Multiculture uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the ways in which complex urban populations experience, negotiate, accommodate and resist cultural difference as they share a range of everyday social resources and public spaces. The authors present...