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One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Urban Policy and Community Planning in England Since 1979

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Recently, in a radio program on Belfast, a local resident attempting to develop nonsectarian initiatives, made a comment along the lines of: when you hear the word ‘community’ in this city, you know someone is going to get hurt.

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Barlow, M., Tietze, W. (2001). One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Urban Policy and Community Planning in England Since 1979. In: Yiftachel, O., Little, J., Hedgcock, D., Alexander, I. (eds) The Power of Planning. The GeoJournal Library, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0359-9_4

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