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.

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...

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...

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...