Download or read book Disrupting the Speculative City written by Amy Horton and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, police violence triggered an uprising in Tottenham that laid bare decades of neglect and state violence against the area’s racialised communities. In its aftermath, local leaders and corporate developers devised an aggressive redevelopment agenda that would have demolished the homes, workspaces and communities of thousands of council tenants, private renters and traders. Their plan was to transform Tottenham and surrounding areas from a diverse working-class place to a space for wealthy investors, residents and consumers. Available as a free open access download and in print, Disrupting the Speculative City tells the story of how a community coalition defeated one of the most ambitious programmes of state-led gentrification in London. Known as the ‘Haringey Development Vehicle’ (HDV), it would have been executed through an undemocratic and speculative joint venture between the local council and the notorious international developer Lendlease. Thanks to the political creativity, tactical nous and extraordinary commitment of ordinary people, the HDV was scrapped by the local council in 2018. Drawing on the accounts of those at the heart of the struggle and analysing crucial developments in property investment, local statecraft and grassroots organising, this book explores a significant and inspirational success for campaigners in London, where social cleansing has become the default outcome of redevelopment. Praise for Disrupting the Speculative City 'This book successfully combines rigorous research and political clarity. Through their chronicle of an important urban struggle in North London, the authors speak to broader issues about power, politics and development. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urban planning, urban geography and social movements, as well as to anyone trying to understand the contradictions of urbanism today.' David Madden, LSE 'This important book narrates how a grassroots campaign successfully fought off one of the most appalling mega-gentrification schemes in London. It makes clear that the fight was not simply political – Momentum versus New Labour in Haringey – but a coming together of a broad coalition of people who used practices and tactics that will be of real value in other anti-gentrification struggles locally, nationally and globally.' Loretta Lees, Boston University 'Disrupting the Speculative City represents an inspirational major contribution to urban regeneration scholarship in relation to understanding how and why grassroots’ activists were able to successfully mount the StopHDV campaign in north London.' Paul Watt, LSE

Download or read book A Survey of the Haringey Domiciliary Family Planning Service 1968 1975 written by Elphis Christopher and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Generosity and Architecture written by Mhairi McVicar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that architecture can function as a true embodiment of generosity and examines how generosity in architecture operates within, and questions, current and historical socio-economic and political systems. As such, it interrogates ways in which architecture aspires for something more, whether within economic austerities or within historic contexts of a discipline that has often been preoccupied with cost and quantitative measurement. The texts presented in this book critically examine the theme of generosity and architecture from a variety of perspectives, addressing the theoretical, the historical, and the everyday processes of architectural practice, procurement, and policy in a global context. The book is a richly collaborative text which explores how architecture – in its processes of ordering and shaping space – can represent and embody generosity in all its multi-faceted potential.

Download or read book Lessons for the Big Society Planning Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation written by Denis Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey, in the decades prior to the 2011 Tottenham riots. The Haringey case study acts as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities they serve. Focusing on the policy areas of planning and regeneration, it considers the local implementation and outcome of central government strategies that have sought to achieve such accountability and responsiveness through community participation strategies. It examines how the local authority responded to central government aspirations for greater community involvement in planning, in the 1970s, and regeneration, from the late 1980s onwards, before looking in detail at the implementation of New Labour neighbourhood renewal and local governance policy in the borough. In doing so, the book provides a longitudinal case study on how various central government community empowerment agendas have played out at a local level. It offers important lessons and indicates how they might work more effectively in future.

Download or read book Artefact Anatomy of a Great English Tax Scandal written by Maurice Samuel and published by MAURICE C SAMUEL. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seen over the long term, overpayment of council tax by a thousand or more pounds a year, and by tens of thousands of pounds since 1993, is a far more overlooked, pernicious, sustained and unfair squeeze on British household incomes than anything occupying the current (March 2023) public debate around the cost of living. This book is unique in terms of the data it presents, the insights it provides, the coherent story it tells, and the issues it raises. Using a comprehensive and rigorous approach, it forensically uncovers the pseudoscience behind council tax banding. In particular, it tells the story of how the Valuation Office made price claims for many terrace properties in the London Borough of Haringey that were not simply near misses, but outright absurdities. In the early 1990s, these claims lifted them by tens of thousands of pounds into much higher council tax bands, resulting in their owners subsequently overpaying council tax by as much as £51,000 to 2022. Among its unique insights, the book identifies Artefacts used by the Valuation Office as the key reason for this outcome. Because these Artefacts did not reflect the letter and intent of the law, they were more often wrong than right, and created bizarre, outrageous and counter-intuitive outcomes. Among these is that a house that sold for £85,000 is paying more in tax (Band F) than one that sold for £200,000 (Band E), so that the proportion of Band F terrace houses in my postcode in Haringey is almost three times greater than in even Kensington & Chelsea, despite the latter having an average terrace price over £400,000 higher in 1991. In Haringey, the Artefacts have left many affluent white middle class homes in more expensive parts of the borough actually paying less council tax than those owned by lower socio-economic ethnic minorities elsewhere. These Artefacts are vitally important to understand for anyone in England and Wales considering challenging the council tax banding of their property, because they underpin the assessments made by the Valuation Office. The sheer weight of unique, consistent, robust, and rigorously presented evidence in this book should leave no reasonable person in any doubt regarding the key role played by these Artefacts in contributing to the multitude structural failings of the current council tax system. These failings have left many households in England and Wales that have challenged the banding of their properties both unable to claim overpaid council tax from the past, and unable to avoid the liability of future unfairly high (and rapidly rising) council taxes. By 2028, the ‘worst-case’ overvaluation since the introduction of council tax would leave a homeowner in Haringey over £69,000 out of pocket, having considerably reduced their living standards and lifetime opportunities. These unfair outcomes mean council tax over-banding is now a significant and growing human rights issue. This book is entirely coincidental with the cost of living crisis that is currently unfolding and gripping the UK. But its findings of a hidden unfair tax burden worth up to many tens of thousands of pounds add an additional vital but to date poorly recognised and understood element that, for those affected by property over-banding, helps accentuate that crisis.

Download or read book The Story of Baby P written by Jones, Ray and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England in 2007 Peter Connelly, a 17 month old little boy - known initially in the media reporting as 'Baby P' - died following terrible neglect and abuse. Fifteen months later, his mother, her boyfriend and the boyfriend's brother were sent to prison. But media attention turned on those who worked to protect children, especially the social workers and their managers, who became the focus of the reporting and of the blame. This book tells what happened to 'Baby P', how the story was told and became focused on the social workers, its threatening consequences for those who work to protect children, and its considerable impact on the child protection system in England. This is the first book to draw together all evidence available on this high profile case and will make a unique and crucial contribution to the topic. It will make essential reading for everyone who is concerned about child protection and the care of children and about the media's impact. This revised edition contains a new Afterword bringing the story up to date.

Download or read book Learning from Baby P written by Sharon Shoesmith and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Shoesmith was Director of Children's Services for Haringey in 2007 at the time of the death of Peter Connelly, also known as 'Baby P'. In Learning from Baby P, she carries out a dispassionate analysis of the events which followed Peter Connelly's death, documenting the responses of the media, politicians and the public. She explores the psychological and emotional responses we share when faced with such horrifying cases of familial child homicide, and how a climate of fear and blame which follows such tragedies can lead to negative consequences for other children at risk of harm, and for the social workers striving to protect them. Learning from Baby P is a thought-provoking book which aims to deepen understanding and shed light on the difficult relationship between politics, the media and child protection.

Download or read book Equalising Opportunities Minimising Oppression written by Dylan Tomlinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years. They tend to have developed as forms of practice panaceas and as a result have been subject to both unrealistic expectations and, at times, to political ridicule. This book clarifies the distinctions between three key concepts - ARP, ADP and AOP. Critically and constructively analysing these three approaches to practice it reappraises their potential in the light of emerging equality issues in the health service With contributions from leading teachers and practitioners in the field, Equalising Opportunities provides students and practitioners in health and social care with a clear overview of an area where there is much confusion and imperfect understanding.

Download or read book Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents written by Watt, Paul and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, place belonging, home and neighbourhood, and argues that the endless regeneration process results in degeneration, displacement and fragmented communities.

Download or read book Families and Social Workers written by Pat Starkey and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families and Social Workers examines the origins, development and impact of Family Service Units (FSU), a voluntary social work agency that, during the post-war period, exercised an influence on the development of social work practice and training out of all proportion to its size and resources. Originating in the activities of conscientious objectors in Liverpool, Manchester and Stepney during the Second World War, FSU’s innovative methods of working with poor families led to the establishment of units in towns and cities throughout Britain. This study shows how FSU met the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of state-run social services; evaluates its successes and failures in terms of the aims that units set themselves; and examines the conflicts that arose between FSU’s commitment to independence and innovation and its dependence on local authority funding.

Download or read book The Review of the BBC s Royal Charter written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: review of the BBCs royal Charter : 1st report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Evidence

Download or read book Everyday Multiculturalism written by A. Wise and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

Download or read book Whose Green City written by Bianka Plüschke-Altof and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question who ultimately benefits from a green city development, and – even more importantly – who does not. While green space benefits are well-documented, green space provision is faced by multiple challenges in an era of urban neoliberalism. With their interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, the chapters in this book carefully study the different dimensions of green space access with particular focus on vulnerable groups, critically evaluate cases of procedural injustice and, in the case of Northern Europe that is often seen as forerunner of urban sustainability, provide in-depth studies on the contexts of injustices in urban greening. Chapters 1, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Download or read book Shopping Place and Identity written by Peter Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book The Archaeology of Greater London written by Trevor Brigham and published by Museum of London Archaeological Service. This book was released on 2000 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is nearly 25 years since the last major survey of the archaeology of the London region was written. In that quarter-century some of the most extraordinary evidence of our past has come to light: a 9,000-year-old hunting camp in Uxbridge, a 2-mile-long prehistoric bank-and-ditch cursus monument at Stanwell, the spectacular Roman heart of the City, the Saxon trading emporium on the Strand, the largest medieval cemetery excavated in Europe at Spitalfields, and Shakespeare's Rose Theatre at Bankside. This book, completed with the substantial support of English Heritage and the City of London Archaeological Trust, represents the latest and most comprehensive attempt to place these treasures in their context. It also draws together the knowledge of specialists and experts to provide a framework within which future archaeological discoveries and research may be considered. The result is an accessible and fascinating insight into the rich diversity of human experience that has combined over the last half-million years into the metropolis of Greater London today.The Archaeology of Greater London is presented in 10 period-based chapters, with 13 accompanying full-colour maps and an extensive bibliography and gazetteer of sites end finds.

Download or read book Dreaming the Impossible written by Mihir Bose and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing of the Year The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions, are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past of racism in sport – until now the truth that dare not speak its name. Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women, preventing them from fulfilling their potential. In Formula One, despite Lewis Hamilton's stellar achievements, barely one per cent of the 40,000 people employed in the sport are of ethnic minority heritage. In football, Britain's premier sport, the number of non-white managers in the professional game remains pitifully small. And in cricket, Azeem Rafiq's testimony to the Commons select committee has exposed the scandal of prejudice faced by Asian cricketers in the game. Veteran author and journalist Mihir Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years. He looks in depth at the controversies that have beset sport at all levels: from grassroots to international competitions and how the 'Black Lives Matter' movement has had a seismic impact throughout sport, with black sports personalities leading the fight against racism. However, this has also led to a worrying white fatigue. Talking to people from playing field to boardroom and the media world, he illustrates the complexities and striking contrasts in attitudes towards race. We hear the voices of players, coaches and administrators as Mihir Bose explores the question of how the dream of a truly non-racial sports world can become a reality. The Marcus Rashford mural featured on the cover was commissioned by the Withington Walls community art project, created by artist AskeP19 (@akse_p19) and based on photography by Danny Cheetham (@dannycheetham). To find out more about the Withington Walls project, you can follow them at @Withingtonwalls on both Twitter and Instagram, or visit their website: www.withingtonwalls.co.uk

Download or read book Literacy Home and School written by Peter Hannon University of Sheffield. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parental involvement in the teaching of reading and writing has often lagged behind practice, though schools in many countries now recognise the importance of parental involvement. The ideas presented in this book offer new ways of thinking about parental involvement and should interest both researchers and practitioners. It relates the recent growth of involvement to broader considerations of the nature of literacy and historical exclusion of parents from the curriculum.; Descriptions are given of key findings from research into pre-school literacy work with parents and parents hearing children read, and a framework to underpin practice is offered. The author gives a critique of evaluation methods in the field and suggests how parental involvement should be evaluated together with a view of research findings to date and issues needing further study. The book concludes with an appraisal of what was learned from research and what needs further enquiry.