Learning outcomes

• demonstrate a detailed appreciation of the major legislative and policy changes which have underscored the development of housing and planning provision in Britain;

• demonstrate an awareness of the changing nature of urban and inner-city policy in Britain;

• appreciate the ways in which national and local processes combine to affect state intervention in any particular place;

• evaluate critically a range of conceptual and theoretical ideas regarding local politics;

• demonstrate skills in verbal and written presentation and communication.

Module Aims

Module Outline (Lecture Themes)

Changing Patterns of Housing Policy
2. The Nineteenth-Century Housing Question
3. Building the Welfare State: From Public Health to Public Housing
4. Selling the Welfare State: Thatcherism and a 'Right to Buy'
5. Housing Associations and 'New Walled Cities'

The Rise and Decline of Urban Policy
6. The Emergence of an Urban Problem with Urban Policy Solutions
7. Thatcherite Transitions: From Urban to Inner-Urban policy
8. Urban Development Corporations: Flagship to Shipwreck
9. Privatism and Partnerships: City Challenge and the Single Regeneration Budget

The Rise and Fall of Labour Market Planning
10. The Rise of Sectoral Intervention: Industrial Training Boards
11. Tripartite Corporatism: The Manpower Services Commission
12. A Decade of Voluntarism: Training and Enterprise Councils
13. New Labour, Full-Employability, and the New Deal

Conclusion
14. From the Keynesian Welfare State to the Schumpeterian Workfare state?

Reading Lists