Urban crisis and local economic development in Great Britain : the contribution of the new urban left In Great Britain, the inner city crisis and the dissatisfaction brought about by the management of the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for the « new urban left ». Its originality is two-fold : it has invested and asserted itself in local politics, called « low politics » ; in addition it. has proposed a new model of local government management different from both the traditional Labour municipal model and that advocated by the conservative government. The example of the interventionist local economic development policies illustrates the originality and the scope of this new urban left. The interest of the British wag...