Securing an urban renaissance Crime, community, and British urban policy /
University of Glasgow.Dept. of Urban Studies.
Helms, GesaHerausgeberedt
Atkinson, RowlandHerausgeberedt
Brisol, UK : Policy Press,
2007.
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas. It provides focused discussions from a range of scholars who examine policy connections that can be traced between social, urban and crime policy and the wider processes of regeneration in British towns and cities.
Cover; SECURING AN URBAN RENAISSANCE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; The 'rebirth' of British cities; Safety, security, and urban regeneration; Outline of the collection; An urban renaissance secured?; Part I. Theories and concepts; 2. Framing the governance of urban space; Frames and imaginaries; Rational discourses of government: from laissez-faire to the New Right; New Labour, urban renaissance, and security; Problem-solving frames; Translating the rhetoric of crime control; Conclusion
3. The planning, design, and governance of sustainable communities in the UKSecurity, safety, and the discourses of sustainable community building; Securing sustainable communities: the rationalities and priorities of the new spatial planning; Conclusion; 4. Is urban regeneration criminogenic?; Social inclusion and 'radical urban policy'; Opportunity knocks; Opportunities missed; Regeneration and punitive crime control policies; Urban regeneration versus 'community'?; Consumption versus citizenship; Economic and social divisions and victimisation; Conclusion; Part II. Policies and agendas
5. New Labour's 'broken' neighbourhoods: liveability, disorder, and discipline?Urban renaissance to sustainable communities: extending policy horizons; Fixing 'broken' neighbourhoods: the intersection of urban regeneration and criminal justice policy; Conclusion; 6. Lockdown! Resilience, resurgence, and the stage-set city; Policy responses to urban threats; Lockdown!; Conclusion; 7. Tackling anti-social behaviour and regenerating neighbourhoods; Defining anti-social behaviour; Explaining anti-social behaviour; Connecting anti-social behaviour to regeneration; Conclusion
8. 'Problem' people, 'problem' places? New Labour and council estatesRepresenting 'problem places'; New Labour's 'problem places'; Conclusion; Part III. Communities in control of (dis)order; 9. Community-police relations: support officers in low-income neighbourhoods; Origins and development; A mixed reception for CSOs: national deployment; The role of CSOs in local policing: evidence from low-income areas; Conclusion; 10. New governance of youth disorder: a study of local initiatives; Policy background to the new governance of youth disorder
Research studies: overview and rationale of the two initiativesImpacts of the initiatives; Conclusion; 11. The night-time economy:exploring tensions between agents of control; Night-time economy, urban renaissance, and social disorder; Pubwatching in Amnicola; Functional adaptation of the system; System dysfunction: conflicting interests and goals among participants; Making sense of the 'night network'; Conclusion; 12. Prostitution, gentrification, and the limits of neighbourhood space; Community responses to sex work; Community safety and the 'nuisance' of sex work
Sex work in the context of regeneration
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas. It provides focused discussions from a range of scholars who examine policy connections that can be traced between social, urban and crime policy and the wider processes of regeneration in British towns and cities.
" ... based on a conference organised by the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, held in June 2005."--P. vi.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276) and index.
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