Understanding Urban Policy

Allan Cochrane is Professor of Public Policy at the The Open University. His previous publications include Comparing Welfare States (editor, second edition, 2000), Rethinking the Region (1998), and A Global World? Reordering Political Space (editor, 1995).

"An immensely enjoyable book, bringing a valuable historical perspective to bear and written in a critical but lucid style... it will challenge and enlighten its readers." Paul Burton, University of Bristol

• 1. What is Urban Policy?. 2. Exploring the Roots: ‘Race’, Disorder, and Poverty.3. Managerialism and the City.4. The Meaning(s) of Community.5. Managing Disorderly Places.6. Competitiveness, the Market and Urban Entrepreneurialism.7. Taking the Cultural Turn.8. Neo-liberalism and the Globalisation of Urban Policy.9. Reshaping Welfare, Re-imagining Urban Policy.References.Index