Market Economy and Urban Change

Preface

 

Those driven by the ever-increasing demands of higher education in the UK will empathize with the protracted time that it has taken to complete this book. Roger Zetter acknowledges that it is largely through the persistence of the co-editor, Mohamed Hamza, that the book has seen the light of day.

The origins lie in a small round-table seminar which we convened at Oxford Brookes University several years ago. Entitled ‘From Welfare to Market’, the seminar examined the reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy that had been taking place across much of the developing world during the preceding decade or so. The thematic concern was to investigate the links between international development agendas; local impacts on the urban ...