Article(electronic)October 2001

The URBAN Community Initiative in Northern Ireland

In: Policy & politics, Volume 29, Issue 4, p. 431-446

Murtagh, Brendan

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Abstract

English
Urban policy has been inextricably tied to the management of the Northern Ireland conflict. The arrival of the EU URBAN Community Initiative 1994-99 struck a discordant note in the attempt to revitalise town centres, lever property capital and produce positive place imagery. This article reviews the experiences of the Initiative in Derry/Londonderry and suggests that its concern for spatial poverty, community participation and social regeneration has much to offer policy and politics in Northern Ireland's uncertain transition to post-conflict stability. A local White Paper is proposed in order to ground policy in the reality of post-industrial change, ethnoreligious segregation and the need to reach out to Northern Ireland's most disaffected communities.

Publisher

Bristol University Press

ISSN: 1470-8442

DOI

10.1332/0305573012501440

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