Rebecca Tunstall

Broschiertes Buch

Twenty-Five Years on Twenty Estates

Turning the Tide?

Beschreibung

This report covers developments in 20 less popular and more problematic English council estates, based on four waves of research since 1980. It presents unique evidence of the impact of 25 years of social change and policy from Thatcher to Blair, a period in which the number of British council homes has halved, and where social inequality and the standard of public services have become key political issues. The last wave of research found in 1995 that despite progress on management and physical conditions, the estates were swimming against a tide of social polarization. In sharp contrast a decade later, there are signs that national and local policy, as well as wider social and economic changes, are helping many of the estates to turn the tide, although there are questions about how sustainable this progress can be. Using data brought together from the four waves of research, and with extensive quotations, figures, and tables, this report covers changes of estate ownership and manageme

Autor

Rebecca Tunstall worked on the two most recent waves of research and is a lecturer in housing in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Alice Coulter was until recently a research officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781861349354
• ISBN-10: 1861349351
• Artikelnr.: 24996405