Hollow Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in the Inner City
本书批判性地审视了英国内城区政策中修辞与现实的差距，分析了默西塞德、伦敦码头区等案例，并探讨了绅士化、性别关系、失业等误解，最后提出替代性政治方案。
Part 1 Policies: rhetoric and reality hollow promises? issues and agendas in the inner city Merseyside development corporation, 1981-1989 physical regeneration, accountability and economic challenge London docklands development corporation re-investment in residential neighbourhoods the theory and practice of inner city programmes. Part 2 Misconceptions: urban social change, salvation and gentrification gentrification and regeneration women, gender relations and the inner city skills do not equal jobs current misconceptions in tackling unemployment. Part 3 Alternative realities: towards an alternative politics of the inner city the financial explosion and the community control of capital in Baltimore black working clas entrepreneurship in Jamaica and the United Kingdom those French inner cities comparative comments on the urban crisis in Britain and France.