Building sustainable communities : : Spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain / / Mike Raco.
In 2003 the Labour Government published its ambitious Sustainable Communities Plan. It promised to bring about a 'step change' in the English planning system and a new emphasis on the construction of more balanced, cohesive, and competitive places. This book uses historical and contemporar...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Changing times, changing places
- Conceptualising spatial policy
- Conceptualising sustainable communities: place-making and labour market-building
- Post-war spatial policy, 1945-79
- Reconstruction, regional policy, and labour market-building: inter-regional labour transfer policies in the post-war period
- Building balanced labour markets in the post-war New Towns
- Economic modernisation and post-war emigration and immigration
- Post-war spatial policy, 1979-2006
- The reconstruction of regional policy and the remaking of the competitive region
- Sustainable community-building under New Labour
- Managed migration, sustainable community-building, and international labour movements
- Spatial policy, sustainable communities, and labour market-building: towards a new research agenda
- References
- Index