Housing Regeneration and the Private Finance Initiative in England: Unstitching the Neoliberal Urban Straitjacket

Antipode

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 358-383

  Hodkinson, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing privatisation; Private finance initiative; Regeneration; Resistance

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GENTRIFICATION; HOUSING PROVISION; INNER CITY AREA; MODERNIZATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEOLIBERALISM; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; URBAN RENEWAL;

ENGLAND; LEEDS [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79951840048     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00819.x     Document Type: Article

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