Communities and Urban Regeneration in the UK

Alice Earley is Research Associate at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow.

• 1. Introduction2. Community Enterprise, Community Assets and Regeneration: Policy Trajectories in the UK in the Post-War Period3. Contesting Gentrification Research Orthodoxies: Local Limits, Alternatives and the Role of Community Control4. The View from Above: Policy and Intermediary Organisation Perspectives5. Community Enterprise, Community Assets, Regeneration and Gentrification over Time in Two Urban Communities6. The Role of Community Asset Owning/Managing Community Enterprises in Regeneration and Gentrification in Extraordinary Times7. Conclusions: Developing a Community Asset-Focussed Analysis of Gentrification

"Building on a nuanced and empirically informed analysis of the potential and limitations of community enterprise, this book manages to deliver a genuine politics of hope." Allan Cochrane, The Open University