Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This paper revisits an assessment, published ten years ago in PPP, of the then-flagship regeneration programme Housing Market Renewal.It finds that the emergent concerns in 2007 with affordability, which partly underscored a justification for the programme's cancellation, remain while suggesting that HMR's key regeneration objectives have gone unaddressed.The paper briefly reviews some ways that the landscape now is similar and different to 2007.The key difference is in the government's overall approach to regeneration, which now relies more on attempts to foster regional economic growth through people-based strategies.By looking at HMR through the lens of competing logics of economic geography at a time of 'austerity urbanism', the paper tentatively concludes that government needs to rediscover a more obviously placebased approach to regeneration.
Source: People Place and Policy Online
Author: Robin Hambleton
Institution: University of the West of England
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2791102776