Inner-City (Housing) Regeneration in Britain : Tackling Spatial Injustice or the New Urban Enclosures ?

Over the past three decades, cities in Western capitalist countries have been transformed under the policy prescriptions of “neoliberal urbanism”. Neoliberalism’s emergence as a strategic capitalist response to the world profit crisis of the 1970s dramatically restored (finance) capital’s power vis-à-vis labour. But the consequences of the restoration of market rule have extended far beyond the labour process into the very governance and production of urban space. Local authorities and the ph..