Neighbourhood Renewal and Housing Markets: Community Engagement in the US and UK (Real Estate Issues): Community Engagement in the US and UK (Real Estate Issues)

The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, the renewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods in cities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality in cities has remained at the forefront of policy and academic debate across Europe and North America. This book provides an important new contribution to these debates and highlights specific issues and developments which are crucial to an understanding of debates about residence, renewal and community empowerment. engages with the urban regeneration, development and housing aspects of real estate places debates on polarisation, inequality and race in a city-based structure provides up-to-date account of policy developments Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–27): Harris Beider Chapter 2 Changing Spatial, Ethnic and Tenure Patterns in England (pages 31–62): Ed Ferrari and Peter Lee Chapter 3 More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race and Opportunity (pages 63–87): Xavier de Souza Briggs Chapter 4 Reflecting on New York City's Housing Policy: 1987 to 2004 (pages 91–114): Jerilyn Perine and Michael H. Schill Chapter 5 Changing Housing Markets, Race and Community: Policy and Practice in Birmingham (pages 115–137): Austin Barber, Rick Groves and Alan Murie Chapter 6 Race and Public Housing Transformation in the United States (pages 138–162): Susan J. Popkin Chapter 7 Living Parallel Lives? Housing, Residential Segregation and Community Cohesion in England (pages 163–185): David Robinson Chapter 8 Resistance and Change: Political and Community Mobilization in Harlem (pages 189–206): Lucille McEwen Chapter 9 The Transformation of UK Housing Associations: Responding to Change (pages 207–229): David Mullins Chapter 10 The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Community Development Corporations and Black and Minority Ethnic Housing (pages 230–246): Harris Beider Chapter 11 Housing, Regeneration and Change in the UK: Estate Regeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London (pages 249–270): Stephen Hall Chapter 12 Erasing the Community in Order to Save It? Reconstructing Community and Property in Community Development (pages 271–289): James DeFilippis Chapter 13 Communities, Networks and Power: Is there a Localization of Decision?Making? (pages 290–313): Rob Rowlands and Pauline Card Chapter 14 Towards a New Policy Agenda? (pages 317–338): Harris Beider

The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, the renewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods in cities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality in cities has remained at the forefront of policy and academic debate across Europe and North America. This book provides an important new contribution to these debates and highlights specific issues and developments which are crucial to an understanding of debates about residence, renewal and community empowerment.

• engages with the urban regeneration, development and housing aspects of real estate
  
• places debates on polarisation, inequality and race in a city-based structure
  
• provides up-to-date account of policy developments