Understanding urban policy : A critical approach / Allan Cochrane.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-171) and index.

What is urban policy? -- Exploring the roots : "race", disorder, and poverty -- Managerialism and the city -- The meaning(s) of community -- Managing disorderly places -- Competitiveness, the market, and urban entrepreneurialism -- Taking the cultural turn -- Neo-liberalism and the globalization of urban policy -- Reshaping welfare, reimagining urban policy.

This extensive and theoretically informed review of the evolution of urban policy since the 1960s explores its complex interaction with changing understandings of urban life and social welfare. Highlighting connections and continuities, it examines a broad range of issues that have helped to define urban policy at different times and in different places, including race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community, and managerialism.