Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

This book uses the London Borough of Haringey case study 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. It focuses on policy areas of planning and regeneration. It 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