Peter Shapely, Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. vi + 317pp. £110.00 hbk.

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Explaining theComponents of Sustainability in Urban Communities

Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preserving communities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many modern theories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations, health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning an...

New Communities in Britain—Achievements and Problems

Britain?Achievements and Problems. By J. H. Nicholson. (Report sponsored by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the National Council of Social Service and published by the N.C.S.S.) This report attempts to review the social consequences of rehousing policies in the country as a whole and covers not only the new towns, but also selected housing estates and expanded towns. Dr. Nicholson found m...

Differences in urban and rural Britain.

Almost 90 per cent of people in Britain live in urban areas and just over half the population are resident in 66 urban areas with populations of 100,000 or more. These and a wide range of key results from the 1991 Census have been published for all urban areas in Great Britain, updating information that was prepared for the first time after the 1981 Census. This article summarises the socio-dem...

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Discomfort about the overarching goal of capitalist economies, and the idea that achieving ever higher levels of consumption of products and services is a vacuous goal, has been with us since the onset of industrialization. This contribution looks at the pheno!11enon and foundations of voluntary simplicity. Its psychological implications and consequences for societies are discussed.