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This 9 page paper discusses the key factors that can prevent some communities being involved in urban policy making and implementation with a focus on the UK. The paper starts with an outline defining is urban policy, then makes the distinction between policy making and implementation and finally explore the nature of community as an idea and in practice in terms of urban planning and how it can be seen in terms of policy making and implementation. The paper uses London as a case study to illustrate the way planning and implementation are separated. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEuurbpolicy.rtf
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is due to the wide variety of urban structures that exist, different in various cultures and even variant within the same country, for example, in many European Countries an area
needs to have at least 10,000 inhabitants before it will be classed as urban. In other areas small agglomerations will be sufficient to classify as urban (Aldskogius, 2001). In
addition to the problems in terms of the definition of urban, there is also the need to classify the level of planning and policy that will be involved. Overall, urban
policy, in its broadest sense may be seen as the policy developed for the densely populated areas, but this can also be expanded outwards with an areas that is rural
surrounding or near an urban area (Aldskogius, 2001). If we look at the UK there is a very broad definition of urban policy adopted by the Deputy Prime Minister Office,
where it is defined as "creating better towns and cities in England with healthy economies, decent and well-designed homes, better public services, and an attractive and safe environment" (ODPM, 2006).
This not only gives us a very broad definition it also places it in the more political context as policies are, ultimately set by the ruling parties at local or
national level, with national concerns coming before local concerns in general policy setting. Therefore, when we look at how urban policy is developed it is often remote from the communities
that it will impact on. It is the result of the intellectual processes that seek to identify problems and find solutions and the institutional responses. The way the policy is
determined reflect the political ideals of the time and in the UK there have been different drivers of urban policy as they are determined by the value judgements of the
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