Urban Development: Gainers and Losers

Synopsis: The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the run-down of metal manufacturing in the Black Country. The enterprise zones set upin 1981 were seen as a means of halting economic decline in certain areas. Looks at enterprise zones and urban development corporations in the Black Country; both are part of a policy for reviving depressed areas. How do they work, do they change local patterns of employment? Who gains and who loses?
Series: Social Problems and Social Welfare, Course D211
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.
Year of production: 1988
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: Architecture; Economics
Keywords: urban development

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