Rebuilding Community

KAREN FULBRIGHT-ANDERSON IRENE BRUEGEL Co-Director, Local Economy Policy Unit, South Bank University, London GARY CRAIG Professor of Social Justice, University of Hull JAMES P. CONNELL Director, Institute of Research and Evaluation in Education JULIEN DAMON Head of Research, Caisse Nationale des Allocation Familiales, Paris ANNE C. KUBISH Director, Aspen Roundtable for Comprehensive Community Initiatives KEITH LAWRENCE Research Officer, Aspen Roundtable for Comprehensive Community Initiatives, New York City CHRISTOPHER MILLER Senior Lecturer, University of West of England, Bristol PETER NORTH Research Assistant, Local Economy Unit, South Bank University, London SARAH PEARSON FRANK C. PIERSON Lead Organizer, South West Industrial Areas Foundation, Tucson, Arizona MERCER L. SULLIVAN Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Newark REBECCA STONE Research Officer, Chapin Hall Centre for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago

Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there.Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.