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Social exclusion and the future of cities
— Poor areas and social exclusion; [and] The state of American cities | | Author(s) | Anne Power, William Julius Wilson |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 31 pp (CASEpaper 35) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Deprived areas ; Urban renewal ; Urban areas ; Social policy ; United Kingdom ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | These papers were presented at the CASE/LSE Housing Seminar on Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities on 8 July 1999. In both the UK and the US, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses on the British situation, where new ways must be found of looking at regeneration based on rebuilding urban neighbourhoods, key points being: limiting suburban land supply and creating higher density in depleted urban neighbourhoods; equalising incentives to recycle old buildings and used land rather than greenfield sites; improving public transport; managing neighbourhoods to encourage a social mix; and protecting green spaces. Wilson's paper, on the American situation, considers the rediscovery of "metropolitan solutions" as answers to the common problems of America's cities and suburbs. This rediscovery reflects recognition of competing requirements: a healthy urban core; awareness that pollution and traffic congestion both cross boundaries and are immune to local fixes; and the co-existence of persistent joblessness in inner city areas and labour shortages in the suburbs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000303203 B |
| Classmark | W6: RN: RRJ: RK: TM2: 8: 7T |
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