Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents - by Paul Watt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised communities in London, showing their experiences and perspectives. He demonstrates the dramatic impacts that regeneration and gentrification can have on socio-spatial inequality.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration, while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of the controversial urban policy of demolition and rebuilding amid London's housing crisis and the polarisation between the city's have-nots and have-lots. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with over 180 residents living in some of the capital's most deprived areas, Watt shows the dramatic ways that estate regeneration is reshaping London, fuelling socio-spatial inequalities via state-led gentrification. Foregrounding resident experiences and perspectives both before and during regeneration, he examines class, place belonging, home and neighbourhood, and argues that the endless regeneration process results in degeneration, displacement and fragmented communities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This book is a powerful and in-depth account of residents' life experiences in fourteen London public housing estates. Paul Watt's recommendations are worth exploring and fighting for to stop the human suffering that regeneration is bringing upon some of the most vulnerable in London." European Planning Studies<br><br>This brilliantly researched and passionately written book will be passed through generations as a cautionary tale of how public housing and its contribution to London's working-class lives was destroyed by venal politicians on behalf of the real-estate lobby. Stuart Hodkinson, University of Leeds<br><br>"A real tour de force. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the links between housing, class inequality and working-class disadvantage." Tracy Shildrick, Newcastle University<br><br>"Paul Watt is a leading analyst of housing policy and politics. He draws on this experience to make sense of a pervasive and troubling housing policy that is reshaping urban space and urban lives in London and beyond." David Madden, London School of Economics<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Paul Watt is Professor of Urban Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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