Name: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London
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Author: Paul Watt
ISBN: 9781447329190

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Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Policy Pr

Author

Paul Watt

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781447329190

Synopsis "Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London"

Public housing estates are disappearing from London’s skyline in the name of regeneration, while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly-illustrated book provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of the controversial urban policy of demolition and rebuilding amid London’s housing crisis and the polarisation between the city’s have-nots and have-lots. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with over 180 residents living in some of the capital’s most deprived areas, Watt shows the dramatic ways that estate regeneration is reshaping London, fuelling socio-spatial inequalities via state-led gentrification. Foregrounding resident experiences and perspectives both before and during regeneration, he examines class, race, place belonging, home and community, and argues that the endless regeneration process turns into one of degeneration and displacement.