ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which public policy of any sort impacts on the urban experience. It also focuses on those policy fields that are explicitly and directly from time to time identified as "urban" policy; in other words, those for which the "urban" is identified as an object of social policy. The chapter discusses the ways in which the urban has been integrated into forms of economic or development policy. It highlights the uneasy relationship between public policy and the urban. There are many versions of the urban to be called on in the policy process, which itself helps to define how the urban is more widely understood at particular moments. The chapter discusses the countries of the global north and particularly from Britain. In the case of London Docklands, the development corporation reshaped the urban environment and constructed a satellite financial district on the edge of the City of London.
