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Birmingham
Sapling's City Gateways bring together all our content relating to specific cities in the UK and Ireland. This Gateway features links to web sites that are relevant to Birmingham and the West Midlands conurbation, as well as details of local books, events and news.
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Sapling Bookstore (3)
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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
Anne Power; John Houghton
(2007)
Paperback - 280 pages
Policy Press
ISBN: 1861346581
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay? "Jigsaw City" examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and pioneer of the modern urban order, as our strongest model of the drive to create public solutions to private squalor is in three parts. Through looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the authors explore: the origins of Britain's acute urban decline; the idea that "one size doesn't fit all"; the continuing urban flight that traps the poor and pays the rich to move out. The book will attract policymakers in cities and government; it will help students of social science, regeneration bodies, community organisations and environmental specialists. The style of the book with its live examples and hands-on experience is extremely accessible in spite of its strong historic background. Its unique 'insider' perspective on policy making and practical impacts offer a useful and unusual perspective.
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Neighbourhoods That Work: A Study of the Bournville Estate, Birmingham
Rick Groves, Alan Middleton, Alan Murie, Kevin Broughton
(2003)
Paperback - 72 pages
The Policy Press
ISBN: 1861345380
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This study provides the results from major original research addressing issues which are central to current debates about social cohesion and neighbourhood renewal. The research focuses on Bournville - a successful, mixed tenure residential neighbourhood in Birmingham. The findings of the study contribute to current debates about social capital and policy responses designed to achieve more balanced and cohesive neighbourhoods. It challenges simplistic approaches which tend to advocate the social engineering of mixed tenure developments, changes to allocation policies or the disposal of socially rented housing into ownership as ways of achieving 'successful' neighbourhoods.
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Bullring
Michael Hallett, Peter James
(2003)
Paperback - 120 pages
Tempus Publishing
ISBN: 0752430416
Synopsis by publisher:
A lavishly illustrated book documenting the reconstruction and development of Bullring in Birmingham, Europe's largest city centre, retail led regeneration project of recent decades.
Using a novel form of representation, the panoramic photographic construction, Michael Hallett has produced a series of fascinating colour montages that are works of art in their own right and yet are also a detailed record of the rebuilding of Birmingham's famous market and retail centre.
The colour images are accompanied by a new history of the Bullring as a market centre written by historian Chris Upton and several Birmingham photographers have contributed their own photographic images showing this historic site over the years.
The book has the official backing of the Birmingham Alliance, the investment group that was at the heart of the Bullring redevelopment project.
Michael Hallett is a professional image maker of wide experience and published photographic historian.
Peter James is Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library and Chair of the Committee of National Photographic Collections. He has curated major exhibitions in Birmingham and London.
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