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Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet
frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always
conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography,
the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is
frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields,
this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography
offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically
into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and
experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial
social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance
and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their
multiple spatialities.
Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet
frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always
conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography,
the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is
frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields,
this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography
offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically
into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and
experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial
social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance
and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their
multiple spatialities.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local
communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since
the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London
has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing
top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the
centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and
their daring proposal: an "Arc of Opportunity" for developers to
transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. This proposal was outlined in a
short film, London's Regeneration Supernova, and shown to foreign
developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. While
the sweeping changes to East London have been keenly felt by
locals, the symbolism and practicalities of these changes - for the
local area, and the world alike - are overdue serious
investigation. Regeneration Songs is about how places are turned
into simple stories for packaged investment opportunities, how
people living in those places relate to those stories, and how
music and art can render those stories in many different ways. The
book will also include a download code to obtain the related
musical project, Music for Masterplanning - in which musicians from
East London soundtracked London's Regeneration Supernova - and a
32-page glossy insert detailing the artists involved.
The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning
author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis
in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK.
Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds
of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by
luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological
war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only
market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of
global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In
politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key
driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation.
Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give
a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can
get out of it.
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