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- Title
Urban Policy in an Anti-Urban Policy Age: Lessons from Great Britain and the United States.
- Authors
Levine, Myron A.
- Abstract
This article focuses on two books, "Urban America in Transformation: Perspectives on Urban Policy and Development," by Benjamin Kleinberg and "The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City," by Nicholas Deakin and John Edwards. Today, urban policy has increasingly been recast in economic terms. Both books trace this shift in urban policy and point to inadequacies of relying solely on developmental approaches to urban problems. Both call for the a more balanced urban policy. "Urban American in Transformation," reviews the history of federal urban policies in the U.S. from the Great Depression through the Reagan-Bush era. The book also presents a review and critique of the models of policy making that have come to dominate the field of urban sociology. In "The Enterprise Culture and the Inner city," Nicholas Deakin and John Edwards observe the growing hegemony of the private sector in inner city policy in Great Britain. In the absence of strong mechanisms of public accountability, corporate-led redevelopment bodies were enabled to develop inner-city sites for business purposes with no guarantee that the new development would provide jobs for the poor or otherwise help to ameliorate inner-city problems.
- Subjects
URBAN America in Transformation (Book); ENTERPRISE Culture &; the Inner City, The (Book); KLEINBERG, Benjamin; DEAKIN, Nicholas; EDWARDS, John, 1953-; URBAN policy
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1998, Vol 21, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1023/A:1023438728729