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Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London

Author/EditorWatt, Paul (Author)
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447329190
Pub Date01/06/2020
BindingPaperback
Pages320
Dimensions (mm)234(h) * 156(w)
Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised communities in London, showing their experiences and perspectives. He demonstrates the dramatic impacts that regeneration and gentrification can have on socio-spatial inequality.
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Using extensive original research undertaken in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration in relation to key housing and urban policy debates. Using interviews which foreground the experiences and perspectives of estate residents throughout multiple stages of the regeneration process, Watt demonstrates the dramatic impacts that regeneration and gentrification can have on socio-spatial inequality and London's marginalised communities.

Using extensive original research undertaken in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration in relation to key housing and urban policy debates. Using interviews which foreground the experiences and perspectives of estate residents throughout multiple stages of the regeneration process, Watt demonstrates the dramatic impacts that regeneration and gentrification can have on socio-spatial inequality and London's marginalised communities.

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

Introduction Part One ~ Policy, Context and Methods The Rise and Fall of Public Housing Estate Regeneration Research Methods and Context Part Two ~ Estates Pre-Regeneration Marginalisation and Housing Valued Places Devalued Places Part Three ~ Estates and the Regeneration Process Entering Regeneration Degeneration Displacement Contestation New Places, New Inequalities Conclusions

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