Open AccessUrban policy under new labour: a new dawn?
Author(s) -
Susan Ball-Petsimeris
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.21.171-181
Subject(s) - ideology , context (archaeology) , urban policy , presentation (obstetrics) , administration (probate law) , political science , inner cities , public administration , regional science , political economy , sociology , geography , inner city , urban planning , politics , law , engineering , civil engineering , archaeology , radiology , medicine
British urban policies can be collectively characterised as a series of experiments intro-duced by successive newly elected governments keen to put their own ideological twist on policy for the inner cities and peripheral. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not, or to what extent, New Labour’s urban policy marks a change in policy direction. Fol-lowing a presentation of the legacy of urban policy left by the outgoing New Right gov-ernment, the paper will go on to outline New Labour’s ideological standpoint. This discus-sion will provide the context for an examination of the urban policies introduced by the Blair administration.