UR03. URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS (UDCs)
(updated: June 28, 2006 )

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Ambrose, Peter, 1986, 'Whatever happened to planning?', especially Chap. 8: 'The second London blitz: redevelopment in Docklands'. Methuen, London..
Ambrose, Peter, 1994, 'Urban Process and Power', Routledge, London.

Anderson, J, 1990, 'The New Right', Enterprise Zones and urban development corporations', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 14, pp468-489.

Audit Commission, 1989, 'Urban Regeneration and Economic Development', HMSO, London.

Auditor-General for Wales, 2002, 'Continuing the Regeneration of Cardiff Bay', Auditor-General for Wales, Cardiff.

Baber, Peter, 1997, 'Closed doors are thrown open', (Teesside UDC and Middlehaven retail case), Planning 1222, 13.6.97.

Baker, Chris, 2004, 'Unsteady gateway progress' (uncertain rail plans and the delivery of the Thames Gateway plan), Planning 1558, 27.2.04, p20

Barnes, J., 1995, 'Radical Planning Initiatives - UDCs', Gower, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Batley, R, 1989, 'London Docklands: An Analysis of Power Relations between UDCs and Local Government', Public Administration 67, pp167-187.

Best, Sian, 2005, 'A Whim Set in Concrrete' (Cardiff Bay Barrage), Seren.

Boaden, N, 1987, 'UDCs - threat or challenge?', Local Government Studies, June.

Bond, Robert, 1998, 'Down on the Docks' (Royal Albert Docks), Surveyor, 26.3.98.

Brookes, John, 1994, 'Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: Key Aspects of their Renewal Strategy and the Unresolved Conflict over the barrage', Papers in Planning no. 128, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Brown, Chris, 2003, 'How Labour grew to love the UDC', (in the Government's Sustainable Communities Plan), Regeneration & Renewal, 14.2.03, p14

Brownhill, Sue, 1991 & 1992, 'Developing London's Docklands: another Great Disaster?', Paul Chapman Publishing, London. (updated 1992). GP5810.BRO
Brownhill, Sue; Razzaque, K; Stirling, T & Thomas, H, 1996, 'Local Governance and the Racilisation of Urban Policy in the UK: the case of urban development corporations', Urban Studies 33 (8), pp1337-1356.
Brownhill, Sue & Darke, Jane, 1998, 'Race, gender and urban regeneration', The Policy Press, July.

Burton, Ian, 1995, 'Heartlands moves fast as corporation hits mid-term' (Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation), Planning 1132, 11.8.95.

Burton, P & O'Toole, M, 1993, 'Urban Development Corporations: post-Fordism in action or post-Fordism in retrenchment', in Imrie, R & Thomas, H, 1993, 'British Urban Policy and the Urban Development Corporations', Paul Chapman Publishing, London, pp186-199. GP5511.BRI

Cambridge Policy Consultants, 1998, 'Regenerating London Docklands', Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (former), London.

Centre for Urban Policy Studies, 1998, 'The Impact of Urban Development Corporations in Leeds, Bristol and Central Manchester', (former) Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, London.

Cheale, Anne, 2004, 'New UDC needs to offer Thurrock a lasting future', Regeneration & Renewal, 17.12.04, p8

Church, A, 1986, 'Urban Regeneration in London Docklands: A Five Year Policy Reviesw', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy', Vol. 6, pp218-237.

Colenutt, Bob & Ellis, Geraint, 1992, 'Squeezing Londoners into the world city mould', Town and Country Planning, 61 (3), March.
Colenutt, Bob, 1992, 'Canary Wharf - A Critical assessment', Docklands Consultative Committee, Planning no. 962, 3.4.92.

Coulson, A, 1990, 'Flagships and flaws: assessing the UDC decade', Town and Country Planning, November.

Cowell, Richard, 2000, 'Environmental Compensation and the mediation of environmental change: Making Capital out of Cardiff Bay', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (Carfax Publishing / Taylor & Francis Group), 43 (5) pp 689-710.
Cowell, Richard & Thomas, Huw, 2002, 'Managing Nature and Narratives of Dispossession: Reclaiming Territory in Cardiff Bay', Urban Studies (Taylor & Francis), June 39 (7), p1241, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=HEG4W3030VYHX0MP

Cox, Alan, 1995, 'Docklands in the Making: The Redevelopment of the Isle of Dogs, 1981-1995', The Athlone Press.

Crickhowell, Nick, 1997, 'The Opera House Lottery: Zaha Hadid and the Cardiff Bay Project', University of Wales Press, Cardiff.

Davids, P.W & Bobe, J.M, 1993, 'Extending the Boundary of the City of London? The Development of Canary Wharf', Environment and Planning A, 25 (4), pp539-552.

Deas, I & Ward, K, 2000, 'The song has ended but the melody has lingered: regional development agencies and the lessons of the urban development corporation experiment', Local Economy 14, pp114-132.

Department of Sociology and Social Policy, 1993, 'More Bricks and Mortar?,' (evaluation of Tyneside and Teeside Urban Development Corporations,' Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Durham University, Durham.

Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions (DETR), London
(former; replaced in June 1997 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions; DTLR)
'Regenerating London's Docklands', 1998, Report by Cambridge Policy Consultants, DETR Publications Sales Centre, tel. (01709) 891318.
'Impact of Urban Development Corporations in Leeds, Bristol and Central Manchester' (Centre for Urban Policy Studies, University of Manchester), 1998.
'Urban Development Corporations: Performance and Good Practice' (Roger Tym & Partners), 1998.

Dewar, David, 2003, 'Thurrock set to regynerate corporations', Planning 1548, 5.12.03, p16
Dewar, David, 2004, 'Midlands County blazes trail' (varied approaches to delivering growth and regeneration in Northamptonshire), Planning 1553, 23.1.04, p8

Docklands Consultative Committee (DCC), London:
'Six Years in London's Docklands', 1988.
'The Docklands Experiment', 1990.
'Ten Years of Docklands: How the Cake was Cut', 1991.
'All That Glitters is Not Gold', 1992.

Donati, Marino, 2003, 'Mending corporations' tarnished reputations' (UDC comeback in managing growth), Planning 1517, 2.5.03, p9

Edwards. Brian, 1999, 'Demonstrating the city: London Docklands', Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 69, January, pp22-24.

Haughton, Graham & Williams, Colin, 1996, 'Corporate city? Partnership, participation and partition in urban development in Leeds', Avebury, Alderhsot, Hampshire.
Haughton, Graham, 1999, 'Trojan horse or white elephant? The contested biography of the life and times of the Leeds Development Corporation', Town Planning Review 72 (2), April, pp173-190.

Hall, Peter, 1999, 'A tale of two city railways' (in London Docklands), Town and Country Planning, 68 (5), May, pp146-147
Hall, Peter, 2004, 'Walking the walk' (turning plans into action on the ground), Town and Country Planning 73 (2), February, pp54-69
Hall, Sir Peter, 2004, 'Cateway's UDC cooked by a mess of chefs', Regeneration & Renewal, 28.5.04, p18

*Hebbert, Mike, 1998, London: More by Fortune than Design', John Wiley, Chichester, Sussex.
Hebbert, Michael, 2000, 'Combining urban value with class design' (two projects on London's Isle of Dogs), Regeneration & Renewal, 8.12.00.

Hill, M.J.P, 1982, 'The Challenge of London's Docklands', Housing Reviewq, Sedptember/October.

Hirst, Clayton, 1997, 'We're talking about my regeneration' (London Docklands), Planning 1222, 13.6.97.

Hollamby, Ted, 1990, 'Docklands - London's Backyard into Frontyard', Docklands Forum, London.

House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts,
'Urban Development Corporations', HMSO, 1989.
'Review of Inner Cities Policy', 1990.

House of Commons Employment Committee:
'The Employment effect of UDCs', Employment Committee Third Report, Vols 1 & 2 (Minutes of evidence), HC327-1, HMSO, 1988.
'The Employment effect of UDCs', Employment Committee Third Report, Vol. 3, HMSO, 1988.

House of Commons Environment Committee, 1983. 'Third Report from the Environment Committee, Session 1982/83 - The Problems of Management of Urban Renewal (Appraisal of the Recent Initiatives on Merseyside), HMSO, London.

House of Commons Public Accounts Committee:
'The 57th Report from the Public Accounts Comittee: The Operation and Wind-Up of the Teesside Development Corporation', August 2002, http://www.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmpubcacc.htm

Imrie, Rob & Thomas, Huw, 1993, 'The limits of property-led regeneration', Environment and Planning C, Government and Policy 11 (1).
*Imrie, Rob et al., 1999, 'British Urban Policy and the Urban Development Corporations', Paul Chapman Publishing, London. (second edition), Sage, London. ISBN 09 7619 6225 5 (cloth) / 0 7619 6226 3 (pb)

Institute for Public Policy Research, 2005, 'From New Towns to Growth Areas: Learning from the Past', IPPR, London, http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/housing.pdf

Isle of Dogs Community Foundation, 2004, 'Regenerating the Isle of Dogs: A Consultation Study', Isle of Dogs Community Foundation, London, tel. (020) 7345 4444, December.

Johnston, Bryan, 1997, 'A tale of 2 cities and their Urban Development Corporations', Planning 1212, 4.4.97.
Johnston, Bryan, 1997, 'A tale of 2 cities' planning ambitions' (Bristol and Cardiff), Planning 1223, 20.6.97.
Johnston, Bryan, 1997, 'In Bristol fashion', Planning 1223, 20.6.97.
Johnston, Bryan, 1997, 'Lured by the look of the bay', Planning 1223, 20.6.97.
Johnston, Bryan, 1997, 'A commission with a mission at heart' (Commission for the New Towns and exiting Urban Development Corporations), Planning 1241, 24.10.97.
Johnston, Bryan, 1998, 'In the end there is a new beginning' (Merseyside and LDDC experience), Planning 1261, 27.3.98.

Klausner, D, 1987, 'Infrastructure, Investment and Political Ends: The Case of London's Docklands', Local Economy, 1 (4), pp47-59.

Kochan, Ben, 1998, 'UDCs hand over the regeneration baton', Urban Environment Today, 2.4.98.

Ledgerwood, G, 1985, 'Urban Innovation: the Transformation of the London Docklands 1968-1984', Gower, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Lewis, Norman, 1992, 'Inner City Regeneration: The Demise of Regional and Local Government', Open University Press.

Lindsay, Niall, 2004, 'Holding the new corporate baby', (Thurrock UDC), Regeneration & Renewal, 26.11.04, p17

Lock, David, 2003, 'Sustainable Development Corporations', Town and Country Planning 72 (4), May, p119

Maison, Paul, 1998, 'Discord strikes around the Bay' (Cardiff Open House), Planning 1249, 2.1.98, p10.

Marshall, T, 1995, 'Clearing an Industrial Area: Collingdon Road and the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation 1988-1994', School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford.

Massey, Doreen, 1991, 'Docklands: a Microcosm of Broader Social and Economic Trends'.

Mawson, J, 1989, 'UDCs: a review', Regional Studies 23 (2).

Merrifield, A, 1993, 'The Canary Wharf debacle: from 'TINA' - there is no alternative - to 'THEMBA' - there must be an alternative', Environment and Planning A, Vol. 25, pp1247-1265.

Mikardo, Ian, 1989, 'Docklands Redevelopment: How They Got It Wrong', ?

Milne, Roger, 1993, 'Docklands signposts for regeneration of corridor,' Planning 1043, 5.11.93.

Minton, Anna, 1993, 'Flying the flag for UDCs,' Planning Week, 1 (13), 2.12.93.

National Audit Office (NAO), London:
- website: http://www.nao.gov.uk
'Urban Development Corporations', HC 513 (1984-85), 1988.
The Achievements of the Second and Third Generation Urban Development Corporations', 1993.
'Regenerating the Inner Cities: Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General', 1993
'Wind Up of Leeds and Bristol Urban Development Corporations', The Stationery Office, 1997.
'Securing the Future of Cardiff Bay', available from NAO Wales, Cardiff, tel. (029) 2037 8661, July 2001.
'The Operation and Wind Up of Teeside Development Corporation', February 2002, on the NAO website.

Nevin, Brenda, 1998, 'Renewing the Black Country: An assessment of the employment impact of the Black Country Urban Development Corporation', Local Economy 13 (3), November.

Newman, I & Mayo, M, 1981, 'Docklands', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, December.

Nicholson, George, 1989, 'London Docklands: a model of how not to regenerate an urban area', Town and Country Planning, 58 (29), February.

Oc, Taner & Tiesdell, Steve, 1991, 'The London Docklands Development Corporation 1981-91: A Perspective on the Management of Urban Regeneration', Town Planning Review 62 (3), July, pp1-14.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
(took over responsibility for planning, housing and regeneration from
the DTLR in May 2002)
- replaced in May 2006 by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- website: http://www.odpm.gov.uk
'Sustainable Communities: An Urban Development Corporation for Thurrock', April 2003, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=14993&heading=e-mail+alert
'An Urban Development Corporation for Thurrock: Regulatory impact assessment', July 2003, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=15852&heading=e-mail+alert
'An Urban Development Corporation for Thurrock: Decision document in response to Thurrock consultation paper', July 2003,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=15851&heading=e-mail+alert
'A Study to Establish Urban Development Corporation Boundaries in Thurrock', July 2003, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=15953&heading=e-mail+alert
'Sustainable Communities: An Urban Development Corporation for the London Thames Gateway - A consultation paper', November 2003,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=17551&heading=e-mail+alert
'Sustainable Communities: An Urban Development Corporation for West Northamptonshire', January 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=18312&heading=e-mail+alert
'An Urban Development Corporation for West Northamptonshire: A decision document', April 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=19620&heading=e-mail+alert
'West Northamptonshire Urban Development Corporation: Consultation Paper', April 2005,
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_urbanpolicy/documents/page/odpm_u...
'West Northamptonshire Urban Development Corporation: Consultation Paper', May 2005,
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_urbanpolicy/documents/page/odpm_u...
'A Decision Document on the scope of Development Control Powers to be conferred on the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation', March 2006.

Ogden, P, 1992, 'Update: London Docklands. the challenge of Development', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

O'Toole, M, 1996, 'Regulation Theory and the New British State: The Impact of Locality on the Urban Development Corporation 1987-1994', Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Parker, J & Oatley, N, 1989, 'The case against the proposed UDC for Bristol', The Planner, February.

Parkinson, Michael, 1988, 'Urban Regeneration and Development Corporations Liverpool Style', Local Economy 3 (2), pp109-118.
Parkinson, Michael, 1990, 'Testing the UDC strategy to the limit', Town and Country Planning, November.

Raco, Mike, 2005, 'A step change or a step back? the thames gateway and the re-birth of the urban development corporations', Local Economy, 20 (2), May,
p141, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=WVW5871K8M0P502J

Robinson, Fred; Shaw, K & Lawrence, M, 1993, 'More than bricks and mortar? Tyne and Wear and Teesside Development Corporations', Town and Country Planning 66 (3), June, pp146-147.
Robinson, Fred; Shaw, K & Lawrence, M, 1995, 'Urban Development Corporations and the creation of employment: An evalautoin of the Tyne and Wear and Teeside Development Corporations', Local Economy, 8 (4), pp326.

Robinson, T, 1996, 'Inner city innovator: The non-profit community development corporation', Urban Studies 33 (9), pp1647-1670.

Robson, Brian, 1998, 'Lowering the flag', (good-bye to UDCs), Town and Country Planning 67 (3), April, pp100-101.

Roger Tym & Partners, 1998, 'Urban Development Corporations': Performance and Good Practice', (former) Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions, London.

Russell, Hilary, 1998, 'A Place for the Community? - Tyne and Wear Development Corporation approach to regeneration', The Policy Press/Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Bristol & York, ISBN 1 86134 103 2.

Schopen, Fay, 2003, 'Urban Development Corporations: Special Report', Regeneration & Renewal, 17.10.03, pp18-23

Schwarz, B, 1991, 'Where horses shit a hundred sparrows feed: Docklands and East London during the Thatcher Years', in Corner, J & Harvey, S, 1991, 'Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture', Routledge, London, pp76-92. DA589.4.E6

Shaw, T, 1992, 'Assessing the performance of urban development corporations: how reliable are the official government output measures?', Planning practice and Research 10, pp287-297.

Smulian, Mark, 2003, 'Territorial rights in the east' (plans for an urban development corporation in East London), Planning 1548, 5.12.03, p17

Stancel, Sophie, 1998, 'Baywatch Battle', (Cardiff Bay Development Corporation's achievements), Public Service and Local Government, November/December.

Sterret, Ken; Murtagh, Brendan; Millar, Gerry, 2005, 'The social turn and urban development corporations', Planning Practice and Research 20 (4), November, p373, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M58836592886077P

Stoker, G., 1989, 'Urban Development Corporations - a Review', Regional Studies, 23 (2), 1989, pp159-173.

Sykes, Hugh, 2002, 'Wrestling with the rules' (experience of the former Teeside Development Corporation), Regeneration & Renewal, 12.4.02, p10

The Stationery Office, 1997, 'Wind-up of Leeds and Bristol Urban Development Corporations', The Stationery Office,

Thompson, Jim (former Bishop of Stepney), 1989?, 'Docklands Redevelopment - a Moral Dimension', Docklands Forum, London E1

Thornley, A., 1993, 'Urban Planning under Thatcherism' (Chapter 8: The Challenge of the Market), Routledge, London. HT133.T4

Tiesdell, S & Oc, T, 1995, 'Property-led regeneration: The London Docklands Experience', in Trench, S & Oc, T. (eds), 1995, 'Current Issues in Planning: Vol. 2', Gower-Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire, pp216-228. GF1750.CUR

University of the West of England, 1998, 'City Growth and Decline: Migration as a measure of urban quality', Faculty of the Built Environment, UWE, Bristol.

Wallis, I, 1987, 'Flexible and Local Alternative to UDCs', Town and Country Planning, July.

Ward, Colin, 2001, 'Looking back on London's Docklands', Town and Country Planning 70 12), December, p318

Ward, R, 1986, 'London: the emerging Docklands City', Buiult Environment 12 (3), pp117-127.

Wray, I, 1987, 'The Merseyside Development Corporation: Progress versus Objectives', Regional Studies 21 (2).