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

The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, therenewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods incities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality incities has remained at the forefront of policy and academic debateacross Europe and North America. This book provides an importantnew contribution to these debates and highlights specific issuesand developments which are crucial to an understanding of debatesabout residence, renewal and community empowerment.* * engages with the urban regeneration, development and housingaspects of real estate* places debates on polarisation, inequality and race in acity-based structure* provides up-to-date account of policy developments

1. Introduction.POLICY AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE.2. A United Kingdom? Changing Spatial, Ethnic and TenurePatterns in England.3. More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race andOpportunity.CHANGING CITIES AND NEIGHBOURHOODS.4. Reflecting on New York City's Housing Policy:1987-2004.5. Changing Housing Markets, Race and Community: Policy andPractice in Birmingham.6. Race and Public Housing transformation in the UnitedStates.7. Living Parallel Lives? Housing, Residential Segregation andCommunity Cohesion in England.INSTITUTIONS AND CHANGE AGENTS.8. Resistance and Change: Political and Community Mobilisationin Harlem.9. The Transformation of English Housing Associations:Responding to Change.10. The Fall (and Rise) of Community Development Corporationsand Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Associations.CONFLICT, PARTICIPATION AND POWER.11. Housing, Regeneration and Change in the UK: EstateRegeneration in Tower Hamlets, East London.12. Erasing the Community in Order to Save it? ReconstructionCommunity and Property in Community Development.13. Communities, Networks and Power: Is there a Localisation ofDecision-Making.CONCLUSION.14. Towards a New Policy Agenda