NEIGHBOURHOODS
Laurie Taylor meets two leading experts on urban neighbourhoods. From the United States, Professor William Julius Wilson, one of that country’s leading sociologists and from Britain, his counterpart and one-time co-author, Professor Anne Power.
Racially segregated residential patterns exist in the US on a scale unheard of in the UK. Here, the idea of racial ghettos is seen as problematic for the construction of viable urban communities. There, it is increasingly being touted as a solution in a society where many citizens regard integration policies as a spent force.
They’ll be comparing the fault-line that runs between urban poverty and racial conflict on both sides of the Atlantic and pinning down the crucial differences in national history, popular experience and government intervention at both local and national level. These differences have resulted in fundamentally different approaches to solving the problems of over-crowded and economically deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. The question is, are the approaches equally viable?
Additional information:
William Julius Wilson
Professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and Department of African and African-American Studies
and Director of Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program
The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics
University of California Press
ISBN 0520229290
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
Vintage Books ISBN: 0679724176
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0226901319
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0226901297
Anne Power
Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
East Enders – Family and Community in Urban Neighbourhoods
Anne Power and Katherine Mumford
The Policy Press ISBN 186134497X
Cities for a small country: The Future of Cities
Richard Rogers and Anne Power
Faber and Faber ISBN 0571206522
Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities
Anne Power and William Julius Wilson
(Centre for Analysis for Social Exclusion paper 2000)
Estates on the Edge:The Social Consequences of Mass Housing in Northern Europe
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 0333746031
The Slow Death of Great Cities?: Urban Abandonment or Urban Renaissance
Anne Power and Katharine Mumford
York Publishing Services - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
ISBN 1902633113
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