Jigsaw cities

This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw; they are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. Jigsaw Cities examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second city, as a model of pioneering urban order and as a victim of brutal Modernist planning.

About the author

Anne Power is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Sustainable Development Commissioner responsible for regeneration and sustainable communities; member of the Government's Urban Task Force; author of books on cities, communities and marginal housing areas in the UK and abroad. John Houghton was head of the Communities Division at the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit; a visiting research associate at CASE; and currently a Harkness scholar at the University of Minnesota. John Houghton worked as Anne Power's assistant during 2002-03 while Anne was Chair of the Independent Commission on the Future of Housing in Birmingham.

Summary

This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw; they are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. Jigsaw Cities examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second city, as a model of pioneering urban order and as a victim of brutal Modernist planning.

Product details

• Authors: John Houghton, John (CASE Houghton, John P. Houghton, Anne Power, Anne (London School of Economics and Political Science) Power
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781861346582
• ISBN: 978-1-86134-658-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Series: Case Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy; Case Studies on Poverty, Place; Case Studies on Poverty, Place; Case Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education