"This second edition of British Urban Policy provides a comprehensive update of the policies, programmes, and effects of the Urban Development Corporations: one of the most controversial urban policy programmes ever implemented in British cities." "This is a comprehensive account of the most significant initiative in urban policy between the late 1970s and mid-1990s. It provides detailed and comprehensive case studies as well as more general analysis of urban policy, while commenting on the future for policy making in British cities." "It will be essential reading for undergraduates in Urban Studies, Planning, Geography, Sociology, and Economics, and of interest to officers working in local and central government, and voluntary groups."--BOOK JACKET.