Cover -- SECURING AN URBAN RENAISSANCE -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction -- The 'rebirth' of British cities -- Safety, security, and urban regeneration -- Outline of the collection -- An urban renaissance secured? -- Part I. Theories and concepts -- 2. Framing the governance of urban space -- Frames and imaginaries -- Rational discourses of government: from laissez-faire to the New Right -- New Labour, urban renaissance, and security -- Problem-solving frames -- Translating the rhetoric of crime control -- Conclusion -- 3. The planning, design, and governance of sustainable communities in the UK -- Security, safety, and the discourses of sustainable community building -- Securing sustainable communities: the rationalities and priorities of the new spatial planning -- Conclusion -- 4. Is urban regeneration criminogenic? -- Social inclusion and 'radical urban policy' -- Opportunity knocks -- Opportunities missed -- Regeneration and punitive crime control policies -- Urban regeneration versus 'community'? -- Consumption versus citizenship -- Economic and social divisions and victimisation -- Conclusion -- Part II. Policies and agendas -- 5. New Labour's 'broken' neighbourhoods: liveability, disorder, and discipline? -- Urban renaissance to sustainable communities: extending policy horizons -- Fixing 'broken' neighbourhoods: the intersection of urban regeneration and criminal justice policy -- Conclusion -- 6. Lockdown! Resilience, resurgence, and the stage-set city -- Policy responses to urban threats -- Lockdown! -- Conclusion -- 7. Tackling anti-social behaviour and regenerating neighbourhoods -- Defining anti-social behaviour -- Explaining anti-social behaviour -- Connecting anti-social behaviour to regeneration -- Conclusion.

8. 'Problem' people, 'problem' places? New Labour and council estates -- Representing 'problem places' -- New Labour's 'problem places' -- Conclusion -- Part III. Communities in control of (dis)order -- 9. Community-police relations: support officers in low-income neighbourhoods -- Origins and development -- A mixed reception for CSOs: national deployment -- The role of CSOs in local policing: evidence from low-income areas -- Conclusion -- 10. New governance of youth disorder: a study of local initiatives -- Policy background to the new governance of youth disorder -- Research studies: overview and rationale of the two initiatives -- Impacts of the initiatives -- Conclusion -- 11. The night-time economy:exploring tensions between agents of control -- Night-time economy, urban renaissance, and social disorder -- Pubwatching in Amnicola -- Functional adaptation of the system -- System dysfunction: conflicting interests and goals among participants -- Making sense of the 'night network' -- Conclusion -- 12. Prostitution, gentrification, and the limits of neighbourhood space -- Community responses to sex work -- Community safety and the 'nuisance' of sex work -- Sex work in the context of regeneration -- Conclusion -- 13. Urban renaissance and the contested legality of begging in Scotland -- 'Bare life' in Ontario -- The Edinburgh case -- Conclusion -- 14. Conclusion: British urbanism at a crossroads -- Governmentality, urban security and safety -- A city-wide urban renaissance? -- Playing politics with urban fears -- Outlook: towards a deep renaissance? -- References -- Index.