Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-2918-3
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 942 g

Public housing estates are disappearing from London’s skyline in the name of regeneration, while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of the controversial urban policy of demolition and rebuilding amid London’s housing crisis and the polarisation between the city’s have-nots and have-lots.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with over 180 residents living in some of the capital’s most deprived areas, Watt shows the dramatic ways that estate regeneration is reshaping London, fuelling socio-spatial inequalities via state-led gentrification. Foregrounding resident experiences and perspectives both before and during regeneration, he examines class, place belonging, home and neighbourhood, and argues that the endless regeneration process results in degeneration, displacement and fragmented communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watt, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: Policy analysis and research context

Housing policy: the rise and fall of public housing

Urban policy: estate regeneration

The research boroughs and their estates

PART II: Estates before regeneration

Marginalisation and inclusion

Valued places

Devalued places

PART III: Living through regeneration

Beginnings

Degeneration

Displacement

Resistance

Aftermaths

Conclusion

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Profile of interviewees

Über Autor(innen)

Watt, Paul
Paul Watt is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Paul Watt is Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.