Compte rendu de lecture : Vers une renaissance anglaise ? Dix ans de politique travailliste de la ville, David Fée & Sylvie Nail (eds.), Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008, 191pp. ISBN-9782878544435,

Recension d'ouvrage publié au sein de la revue Cercles (Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone) Ouvrage recensé : Vers une renaissance anglaise ? Dix ans de politique travailliste de la ville, David Fée & Sylvie Nail (eds.), Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008, 191pp. ISBN-9782878544435Sylvie Nail and David Fée have both written extensively on urban anthropology and housing policy in Great Britain. In their introduction to this book, they offer us a collection of eight hand picked articles - four in English and four in French - which describe in detail the challenges that New Labour has had to face in its attempts to breathe new life into England's urban landscape.1 A biography of each author can be found at the end of the book and each chapter is rounded off with a detailed bibliography. When appropriate, photos and diagrams illustrate the dynamics involved in "urban renaissance". This term was chosen by New Labour in an attempt to fully merge housing policy with its "third way" approach to politics: given that it considered towns as the economic force of the nation, redesigning urban England was to reach out far beyond just "bricks and mortar" to incorporate a plethora of measures aimed at connecting up the various strands of urban society in order to provide people with a sense of community