This extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare.

• An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s.
• Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism.
• The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject.
• Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of disciplines.

Allan Cochrane is Professor of Public Policy at the The Open University. His previous publications include Comparing Welfare States (editor, second edition, 2000), Rethinking the Region (1998), and A Global World? Reordering Political Space (editor, 1995).