ABSTRACT
This book is about how urban policy in the United Kingdom is put into practice. It considers the roles of central government departments, executive agencies appointed by central government, and elected local authorities. Since the most substantial agencies in the local public sector are still local authorities, much of the book is based on local government material. However, the decline in the importance of local authorities that has occurred during the last fifteen years makes it essential to consider the new machinery of central government which has developed to implement policy in the UK’s regions and cities.
