Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Contextualising deprivation and policy -- Introduction -- Histories of the poor -- Conceptualising the problem: language, assumptions and interpretations -- Social investigation and community development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Redevelopment, immigration and economic decline -- Planning a better Britain -- Immigration and exclusion -- The rediscovery of poverty -- Economic decline -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 State responses to the urban crisis -- Plowden Report -- Seebohm Report -- Skeffington report into planning and public participation -- The Redcliffe-Maud Report -- The Urban Programme -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Education Priority Areas -- Introduction -- Deprivation and education -- Action-research: Education Priority Areas -- Reactions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Community Development Project: Origins, research and analyses -- Introduction -- Labour's emerging deprivation programme -- Origins of the Community Development Project -- Outline of the communities -- Housing -- Economic decline, unemployment and limited opportunity -- A national gaze -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Community Development Project: Social programmes and local government -- Introduction -- Community action -- Confronting the council -- The end of the Community Development Project -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The Inner Area Studies: Housing and local government -- Introduction -- Policy and the Conservatives -- The Six Town Studies - the Inner Area Studies -- The study areas -- Local government, social action and reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Inner Area Studies: Economic decline and the total approach -- Introduction -- Economic decline