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Designs on the urban: New Labour's urban renaissance and the spaces of citizenship

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  • Adam Holden
  • Kurt Iveson

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The contours of the so-called 'urban renaissance' in British cities have been the subject of increasing amounts of critical attention from urban scholars. In particular, many have noted the exclusionary consequences of the renaissance for urban public spaces in revalorized city centres. In this paper, the authors ask whether New Labour's urban policy might also be opening up new political opportunities for progressive interventions in contests over the meaning of the urban. After considering the influence of New Labour's social liberalism in the recently released Urban White Paper, the authors identify key tensions within British urban policy and show how both the re-scaling of urban governance and the urban design process have emerged as key strategies to overcome these tensions. The emphasis on urban design, it is argued, is opening up a new public sphere through which visions of the 'good city' might be contested. The political possibilities of this emergent public require further empirical investigation. Because it is relatively deterritorialized, it could offer an alternative space of urban citizenship to the over-privileged 'local community'.

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  • Adam Holden & Kurt Iveson, 2003. "Designs on the urban: New Labour's urban renaissance and the spaces of citizenship," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 57-72, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:57-72
    DOI: 10.1080/13604810302221
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    1. Chiara Garau & Paola Zamperlin & Ginevra Balletto, 2016. "Reconsidering the Geddesian Concepts of Community and Space through the Paradigm of Smart Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(10), pages 1-16, September.
    2. Gerry Mooney & Nick Fyfe, 2006. "New Labour and Community Protests: the Case of the Govanhill Swimming Pool Campaign, Glasgow," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 21(2), pages 136-150, May.
    3. Menna Tudwal Jones, 2019. "Framing regeneration: Embracing the inhabitants," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(9), pages 1901-1917, July.

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