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Saumarez Smith, Otto (2020) Action for cities : the Thatcher government and inner city policy. Urban History, 47 (2). pp. 274-291. doi:10.1017/S0963926819000543 ISSN 0963-9268.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000543
Abstract
This article reintroduces the issue of the inner city into the project of understanding the Thatcher government. Through exploring how the Thatcher government formed urban policy in the 1980s, I want to make a contribution to the debate of whether 1979 saw a definite break with past approaches, or whether it is better seen as a continuation of the period of confusion and retreat which characterises much of the 1970s. Furthermore, I want to ask how much new policy ideas really did amount to a particularly Thatcherite, or indeed a neoliberal, urbanism, or whether it was more a case of returning to the admixture of dirigisme and deregulation that had long been at the heart of Tory approaches –albeit dressed up with new terminologies and often in new neo-vernacular styling. These questions are important for a broader issue of how we periodise the changes to cities in the post-war period.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Urban policy -- Great Britain -- 20th century, Economic policy -- Great Britain -- 20th century, Thatcher, Margaret -- Influence, Inner cities -- Great Britain -- 20th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Urban History | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0963-9268 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 47 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 274-291 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0963926819000543 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Urban History. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 March 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 March 2019 | ||||||||
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