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The rise and fall of urban regeneration policy in England, 1965 to 2015

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This paper provides a history of the evolution of urban regeneration policy in England during the past 50 years. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition government (2010-2015) presided over the effective cessation of urban regeneration as a form of state sponsored public policy. The objective of countering localised ‘market failure’ that has characterised English regeneration policy since the 1960s – albeit with different emphases placed by different governments on the role of the state and market, economic growth and social inclusion – has been displaced by a strategy that has the potential to stimulate economic development in areas of market opportunity but does little to address the physical, economic and social malaise of the most deprived urban neighbourhoods. In effect, it is argued, the Coalition government have pursued the market led logical of concentrating growth in London and the South East advocated by neo-liberal economists, but without the necessary counter-balancing regeneration measures in the Midlands and the North.

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Hall, S. (2016). The rise and fall of urban regeneration policy in England, 1965 to 2015. In: Weber, F., Kühne, O. (eds) Fraktale Metropolen. Hybride Metropolen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11492-3_16

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