scholarly journals Disruption, destruction and the creation of ‘the inner cities’: the impact of urban renewal on industry, 1945–1980

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALISTAIR KEFFORD
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Industrial Activities ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT:This article examines the impact of post-war urban renewal on industry and economic activity in Manchester and Leeds. It demonstrates that local redevelopment plans contained important economic underpinnings which have been largely overlooked in the literature, and particularly highlights expansive plans for industrial reorganization and relocation. The article also shows that, in practice, urban renewal had a destabilizing and destructive impact on established industrial activities and exacerbated the inner-city problems of unemployment and disinvestment which preoccupied policy-makers by the 1970s. The article argues that post-war planning practices need to be integrated into wider histories of deindustrialization in British cities.

Housing Associations, Private Finance and Risk Avoidance: The Impact on Urban Renewal and Inner Cities

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1695-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
A D H Crook ◽  
M Moroney
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Housing Renewal

In this paper a case study of the link between housing and urban policy in Britain is presented. The impact that policy on housing associations has had on inner cities and on urban renewal is examined. The impacts of recent changes in government policy about capital and revenue funding (which expose housing associations to risk), on the type and location of housing schemes are also investigated. It is shown that these impacts are inconsistent with the government's inner city and housing renewal objectives.

Selling national urban renewal: the National Film Board, the National Capital Commission and post-war planning in Ottawa, Canada

Urban History ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROGER M. PICTON
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
World War ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Centralized Planning ◽  
National Film Board ◽  
Post War

ABSTRACT:Using film and archival evidence, this article focuses on post-war urban redevelopment in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. During this period, two federal institutions, the National Capital Commission and the National Film Board, worked in tandem to disseminate the promise of post-war urban renewal. Film and planning techniques perfected during World War II would be used to sell national urban renewal to Canadians. Rooted in centralized planning, steeped in militarist rhetoric and embedded in authoritarian tendencies, federal plans for a new modern capital had tragic implications for the marginalized and dislocated residents of the inner-city neighbourhood of LeBreton Flats.

scholarly journals Measuring the informal economy in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Saunders ◽  
E Loots
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
Currency Demand ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Currency Demand Approach ◽  
The Impact

Measuring the size of the South African informal economy has received inadequate attention, making it difficult for policy-makers to assess the impact of policy measures to stimulate informal economic activity. This article aims to estimate the size of the informal economy by using the Currency Demand Approach.  The empirical results reveal that the informal economy as a percentage of GDP decreased from 1967 to 1993, before levelling off.  The growth in the informal econmy has also underperformed in comparison to formal economic growth. There appears to be a causal relationship running from the informal to the formal economy. Macro-economic policies aimed at the formal economy will not necessarily 'trickle down' to the informal, while these polcies aimed at the informal economy may have a profound effect on the formal economy.

scholarly journals The Great War and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia the legacy of an enduring conflict

Balcanica ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Dragan Bakic
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Great War ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Military Planning ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post War ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, officially named Yugoslavia after 1929, came into being on the ruins of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 after the immense war efforts and sacrifices endured by Serbia. The experience of anti-Habsburg struggle both before and after 1914 and the memory of some of the most difficult moments in the Great War left a deep imprint on the minds of policy-makers in Belgrade. As they believed that many dangers faced in the war were likely to be revived in the future, the impact of these experiences was instrumental to their post-war foreign policy and military planning. This paper looks at the specific ways in which the legacy of the Great War affected and shaped the (planned) responses of the Yugoslav government to certain crises and challenges posed to Yugoslavia and the newly-established order in the region. These concern the reaction to the two attempts of Habsburg restoration in Hungary in 1921, the importance of the Greek port of Salonica (Thessaloniki) for Yugoslavia?s strategic and defence requirements, and military planning within the framework of the Little Entente (the defensive alliance between Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania) in the early 1930s. In addition, it is ar?gued here that the legacy of Serbo-Croat differences during the war relating to the manner of their unification was apparent in the political struggle between Serbs and Croats during the two decades of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia?s existence.

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF BANKING SAFETY IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Olena Dzhafarova ◽  
Olena Riabchenko ◽  
Igor Artemenko
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
Report Data ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the scientific analysis of Ukraine’s economic activity under the conditions of European integration processes. It is stressed that the value of the current economic activity is primarily determined by the processes of globalization, the formation of market relations, need for creation of guarantees in these conditions that will ensure a decent life for all members of society because of the need for ensuring the economic and overall national security of Ukraine. However, it is necessary to consider that the access to world markets and formation of an open economy also mean an internal stability of the economy and financial system of the state. The purpose of the article is to clarify the concept of banking security, its main components and levels of development. The report data of the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine for the last years have been analysed. It also testifies about the lack of control and superficial attitude of the controlling bodies towards the processes of the banking sphere criminalization. It is determined that the DGF indicators do not correspond to those of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reports regarding the crimes committed in the sphere of banking. The government of Ukraine should focus on domestic reforms, the creation of living standards, economics and politics in Ukraine, which are as close as possible to European. Only then it is possible to implement effective mechanisms aimed at neutralizing, minimizing the impact and eliminating the phenomena and factors leading to the creation of external and internal threats to the state’s financial security.

The Garrison and its Hinterland in the Ottoman East, 1578–1605

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
RHOADS MURPHEY
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Military Strategy ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

This chapter gives an overview and analysis of the consequences and localized effects of the period of endemic war between the Ottomans and Safavids along an extended front in eastern Anatolia over the thirteen years between 1578 and 1590. It assesses how the creation of a new militarised zone where large and very resource-demanding garrisons, constituting a key element of Ottoman military strategy, contributed to the stability or otherwise of the frontier regions in the post-war period. In particular, it evaluates the impact of Ottoman military investment, deployment of resources and local cost-sharing and manpower provision arrangements on social relations, both in cities where the major garrisons were situated and in the surrounding countryside whose resources contributed to their maintenance.

Urban Poverty, Race, and Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Julius Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the political, economic, and cultural factors that contributed to the emergence and persistence of concentrated poverty in black inner cities. It begins with a discussion of the political forces that adversely affected black inner-city neighborhoods, followed by an analysis of impersonal economic forces that accelerated neighborhood decline in the black inner city and increased disparities in race and income between cities and suburbs. It then considers two types of cultural forces that contribute to racial inequality: belief systems of the broader society that either explicitly or implicitly give rise to racial inequality; and cultural traits that emerge from patterns of intragroup interaction in settings created by racial segregation and discrimination. It also assesses the impact of the recent rise of immigration on areas of concentrated urban poverty before concluding with suggestions for a new agenda for America’s inner city poor.

The Practice of the Theory of Industrial Adaptation in Britain and West Germany

1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Post War ◽  
National Governments

THE TERM ‘INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION’ HAS RECENTLY EMERGED as a rallying call in the vocabulary of economic policy-makers in national governments and international organizations. At the same time the political consequences of the adaptation process, such as the reorientation of whole areas of government activity towards industrial priorities, or the escalation of unemployment, have redefined the agenda of economic policy for students of politics. This article, based on a comparison of the systems of industrial adaptation that have operated successfully in West Germany over the post-war period and, far less successfully, in Britain, focuses on the subsidy issue in the two countries and points to the hypocrisy of official economic doctrines and programmes. Insofar as governments must concern themselves with economic activity, issues such as subsidy must be evaluated not in pejorative, polemical fashion but in terms of their goals and of policy frameworks within which they can be controlled.

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