ABSTRACT
There is a clear emphasis within both urban policy and neighbourhood renewal policies in the UK upon the creation of ‘mixed communities’. As Kleinhans (2004) shows, this focus upon mixed communities can be traced back to the early 1990s in Britain (see DoE, 1991, 1995) following a public debate about the need to have ‘balanced communities’ (Page, 1993), whilst a similar policy thrust has existed since 1997 in Dutch renewal programmes. In Britain, during the post-1997 New Labour Government, mixed communities policy first received explicit expression in the report of the Urban Task Force under the Chairmanship of Lord Richard Rogers:
Whether we are talking about new settlements or expanding the capacity of existing urban areas, a good mix of incomes and tenures is important … (Urban Task Force, 1999, p. 65)
