Urban Policy in the Thatcher Decade: English Inner-City Policy, 1979–90

P Lawless
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P Lawless: School of Urban and Regional Studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield S1 1WB, England

Environment and Planning C, 1991, vol. 9, issue 1, 15-30

Abstract: England has witnessed more than a decade of formal urban policy effected by Conservative administrations elected in 1979, 1983, and 1987. Most initiatives have fallen into one of three categories: Those designed to improve coordination; innovations in liberalisation; and urban development programmes. These initiatives can collectively be evaluated within a number of parameters. Central government has argued that urban policy is a coordinated, adequate, efficient, and consensual approach to difficulties faced by the older conurbations. Evidence from Parliament, academics, practitioners, and lobbyists suggests, however, that it remains an ill-coordinated, limited, inefficient, and sectorally divisive policy. Other interpretations rooted in concepts such as privatisation and accentuated control have greater validity in explaining British urban policy.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1068/c090015

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