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- Title
Community, culture, crisis: the inner city in England, c. 1960–1990.
- Authors
Andrews, Aaron; Kefford, Alistair; Warner, Daniel
- Abstract
It was not just the housing that was sub-standard, however, with prominent black feminist writers pinpointing poor-quality inner-city schools in their critique of the "Educational Subnormality" scandal.[24] Social and cultural histories of black and Asian communities in post-war Britain provide crucial insight into the history of the inner city. Writing in I The Times i newspaper in 1988, the urbanist Colin Ward claimed that 'The "inner city" is an idea, not a place. 14 See, for example, A. Kirby, The Inner City: Causes and Effects (Corbidge, 1978); G. Whitting, Implementing an Inner City Policy: A Case Study of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Inner Area Programme (Bristol, 1985); and P. Lawless, Britain's Inner Cities, 2nd edn (London, 1989). Inner-city communities and cultures Understanding the urban crisis shines new light on the everyday lives of inner-city residents in post-war Britain.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; INNER cities; SUBURBS; COMMUNITIES; CITIES &; towns; RACE relations; CITY dwellers; INTERRACIAL couples
- Publication
Urban History, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 2, p202
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926821000729