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Assoc. Prof. Rowland Atkinson - Recent Publications by Topic

 

Recent publications

 

Social control, disorder and crime

Atkinson, R. and Helms, G. (eds.) (2007) Securing an urban renaissance? Crime, community and British urban policy, Bristol : Policy Press.

Helms, G., Atkinson, R. and McLeod, G. (2007) Securing the City: Urban Renaissance, Policing and Social Regulation (Introduction to special issue), European Urban and Regional Studies, 14, 4, pp. 267-276.

Atkinson, R. (2006) Mob mentality: The threat to community sustainability from the search for safety, Chapter in: Building on the past: Visions of housing futures , P. Malpass and Cairncross, L. (Eds.), Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 163-184.

Atkinson, R. (2006) Housing and the New Spaces of Disciplinary Control: The Compounded Citizenship of Social Renting, Chapter in Flint, J. (ed.) Anti-Social Behaviour, Bristol : Policy Press, pp. 91-116.

Atkinson, R. and Flint , J. (2004) Order born of chaos? The capacity for informal social control in disempowered and ‘disorganised' neighbourhoods, Policy and Politics , 32, 3, pp. 333-350.

Atkinson, R. and Flint , J. (2004) Stock Responses to Disorder? Social Housing Governance and Crime, Criminal Justice Matters , Spring, pp. 10-11.

Flint , J. Atkinson, R. and Scott, S. (2003) A Report on the Consultation Responses to Putting our Communities First: A Strategy for tackling Anti-social Behaviour, Edinburgh : Scottish Executive.

Atkinson, R., Mullen, T. and Scott, S. (2000) The Use of Civil Legal Remedies for Neighbour Nuisance in Scotland , Edinburgh : Scottish Executive.

 

The urban, simulation and videogaming

Atkinson, R. and Willis, P. (2007) Charting the ludodrome: The mediation of urban and simulated space and the rise of the flâneur electronique , Information, Communication and Society, 10, 6, pp. 818-845.

 

Gated communities, urban fortification and privatisation

Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S. (forthcoming 2009) Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front , London : Reaktion.

Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S. (2008) A Picture of the Floating World: Grounding the Secessionary Affluence of the Residential Cruise Liner, Antipode , 41, 1, pp. 92-110.

Atkinson, R. (2008) The flowing enclave and the misanthropy of networked affluence, Chapter in Savage, M. and Blokland, T. (Eds.) Networked Urbanism: Critical Perspectives on Social Capital in the City , Aldershot : Ashgate, pp. 42-58.

Atkinson, R. (2008) The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers), Debate, May 2008 , European Journal of Spatial Development

Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S. (2007) Panic Rooms: The Rise of Defensive Homeownership, Housing Studies , 22, 4, pp. 443–458.

Atkinson, R. (2007) The architecture of enclosure in a city of enclaves: gated communities and gentrification in Belfast , Chapter in: Belfast Ordinary , Belfast : Factotum.

Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S. (2007) Panic Rooms: The Rise of Defensive Homeownership, Housing Studies .

Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S. (eds.) (2006) Gated Communities: International Perspectives , London: Taylor and Francis.

Atkinson, R., Blandy, S. Flint, J. and D. Lister (2005) Gated cities of today? Barricaded residential development in England, Town Planning Review, 76, 4, pp. 417-437.

Special issue - Atkinson, R. and Blandy (Eds.) (2005) International perspectives on the New Enclavism and the Rise of Gated Communities (Eds.) Housing Studies. 20, 2, pp. 177-186.

Atkinson, R. and Flint , J. (2004) Fortress UK ? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time-space trajectories of segregation, Housing Studies, 19, 6, pp. 875-892.

Atkinson, R., Blandy, S., Flint , J. and Lister, D. (2003) Gated Communities in England , London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Blandy, S., Lister, D., Atkinson, R. and Flint, J. (2003) Gated Communities: A Systematic Review of the Research Evidence , Glasgow/Bristol: ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research.

 

Sound and noise in cities

Atkinson, R. (2008) The Home as Aural Haven, Lo Squaderno, No.10, December, pp. 5-11.

Atkinson, R. (2007) Ecology of Sound: The Sonic Order of Urban Space, Urban Studies , 44, 10, pp. 1-13.

Atkinson, R. (2007) Ecology of Sound: The Sonic Order of Urban Space, Urban Studies.

Atkinson, R. (2007) Space's Vacant Public: The View of Civic Life from Four Wheels in Hobart, Introduction to Exhibition catalogue, Made Public , Hobart: Carnegie Gallery.

Atkinson, R. and English, L. (2006) On Isolation , Brisbane: Room40 (Music CD media).

Atkinson, R. (2006) The Aural Ecology of the City: Sound, noise and exclusion in the city, UTAS: Housing and Community Research Unit.

 

Gentrification and neighbourhood change

Atkinson, R. (2008) Gentrification, Segregation and the Vocabulary of Affluent Residential Choice (Commentary), Urban Studies , 45, 12, pp. 2626–2636.

Atkinson, R. with Easthope, H. (2008) The creative class in utero ? The role of students and higher education in Australia 's urban creative economy, Built Environment , 34, 3, pp. 307-318.

Atkinson, R. (2006) Padding the bunker: Strategies of middle-class disaffiliation and colonisation in the city, Urban Studies. 43, 4, pp. 819-832.

Atkinson, R. and Bridge, G. (eds.) (2005) The New Urban Colonialism: Gentrification in a Global Context , London : Routledge.

Atkinson, R. (2004) The evidence on the impact of gentrification: New lessons for the urban renaissance? European Journal of Housing Policy , 4, 1, pp. 107-131.

Special issue: Gentrification in a New Century - Atkinson, R. (Ed.) (2003) Misunderstood saviour or vengeful wrecker? What really is the problem with gentrification? Urban Studies , 40, 12, pp. 2343-2350.

Atkinson, R. (2002) Does Gentrification help or harm urban neighbourhoods? An assessment of the evidence-base in the context of the new urban agenda , Glasgow/Bristol: ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research.

Atkinson, R. and Flint , J. (2001) Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies, Social Research Update , 33.

Atkinson, R. (2000) The Hidden Costs of Gentrification: Displacement in Central London , Journal of Housing and the Built Environment , 15, 4, pp. 307-326.

 

Area effects, poverty and social exclusion

Atkinson, R. (2008) The great cut: Private modes of social evasion and their support by public policy in contemporary urban systems, Social Policy and Administration, 42, 6, pp. 593-610.

Atkinson, R. and Jacobs, K. (2008) Public Housing in Australia : Stigma, Home and Opportunity, Hobart : Housing and Community Research Unit.

Atkinson, R. (2008) Social Mix, Housing Policy  and Community Outcomes, Melbourne : AHURI.

Atkinson, R. (2006) Neighbourhoods and the Impacts of Social Mix: Crime, Tenure Diversification and Assisted Mobility, UTAS: Housing and Community Research Unit.

Atkinson, R., Buck, N. and Kintrea, K. (2005) British Neighbourhoods and Poverty: Linking Place and Social Exclusion, Chapter in I. Gordon, A. Harding and Turok, I. (Eds.) Exclusion, Competitiveness and Cohesion , London: Palgrave, pp. 154-171.

Atkinson, R. and Kintrea, K. (2004) ‘Opportunities and despair, it's all in there': Practitioner Experiences and Explanations of Area Effects and Life Chances, Sociology, 38, 3, pp. 437-455.

Parkes. A., Kearns , A. and Atkinson, R. (2002) What makes people dissatisfied with their neighbourhoods? Urban Studies , 39, 13, pp. 2413-2438.

Atkinson, R. and Kintrea, K. (2002) A consideration of the Implications of Area Effects for British Housing and regeneration Policy, European Journal of Housing Policy, 2, 2, pp. 1-20.

Atkinson, R. and Kintrea, K. (2001) Disentangling Area Effects: Evidence from Deprived and Non-Deprived Neighbourhoods, Urban Studies, 38, 12, pp. 2277-2298.

Atkinson, R. and Kintrea, K. (2000) Owner Occupation, Social Mix and Neighbourhood Impacts, Policy and Politics, 28, 1, pp. 93-108.

Scottish Homes (2000) Connecting Communities in Urban Scotland , Edinburgh : Scottish Homes.

 

Urban politics and the vengeful state

Atkinson, R. (2008) A war on the poor? Public policy and public anger in a 24/7 world, The Record (St Vincent de Paul society magazine), Winter, pp. 16-17.

Atkinnson, R. (2003) Domestication by Cappuccino or a Revenge on Urban Space? Control and Empowerment in the Management of Public Spaces, Urban Studies , 40, 9, pp. 1211-1245.

 

Research methods

Atkinson, R. and Flint, J. (2003) Snowball Sampling, in Miller, R. L. and Brewer, J. D. (eds.) The A to Z of Social Research, London: Sage.

Atkinson, R. and Flint, J. (2001) Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies, Social Research Update , 33.

Atkinson, R. and Flint , J. (2004) Snowball sampling, entry in Lewis-Beck, M., Bryman, A. and Futing Liao, T. (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, London : Sage.

 

Housing studies

Jacobs, K. and Atkinson, R. (2008) Editorial: The Pursuit of Theory: Contemporary Debates in Housing and Urban Research, Housing, Theory and Society, 25, 3, pp. 157-163.

Atkinson, R., Habibis, D., Easthope, H. and Goss, D. (2007) Sustaining Tenants with Demanding Behaviour: A Review of the Research Evidence , Melbourne: AHURI.
 
Habibis, D., Atkinson, R., Dunbar, T., Goss, D., Easthope, H. Goss, D. and Maginn, P. (2007) A Sustaining Tenancies Approach to Managing Demanding Behaviour in Public Housing: A Good Practice Guide , Melbourne: AHURI.

Atkinson, R. and Willis, P. (2006) Community Capacity Building: A Practical Guide , University of Tasmania: Housing and Community Research Unit.

Atkinson and Flint (2005) Towards a National Housing Strategy for Sex Offenders , Edinburgh: Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland /Scottish Executive.

Goodlad, R. and Atkinson, R. (2004) Sacred cows, rational debates and the politics of the right to buy after devolution , Housing Studies, 19, 3, pp. 447-463.

Atkinson, and Goodlad, R. (2002) Reforming House Sales in the Social Rented Sector: Implications for Northern Ireland 's Housing Associations , Belfast : Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations.

 

Regeneration and neighbourhood change

Thomson, H., Atkinson, R., Petticrew, M. and Kearns , A. (2006) Do urban regeneration programmes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980-2004), Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 60, pp. 108-115.

Atkinson, R., Thomson, H., Kearns , A. and Petticrew, M. (2006) Giving urban policy its ‘medical': assessing the place of health in area-based regeneration , Policy and Politics, 34, 1, pp. 5-26.


Journalism and other miscellaneous publications

Atkinson, R. and Jacobs, K. (2008) Funding Door Needs to Open so Public Housing can live up to its Potential, The Age, June 5th , pp. 14.

Atkinson, R. Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind (Aboriginal issues), New Start , 22 September.

Atkinson, R. (2006) An urban renaissance down under, New Start , 31 March.

Atkinson, R. (2004) Out and about with your tinnitus, Quiet , 15, 3, pp. 10-11.

Atkinson, R. (2004) Locked out (Gated communities), New Start, 9 January.

Atkinson, R. (2002) Poor lose out when push comes to shove. Edinburgh Evening Times, October 10 th .

Atkinson, R. (2002) Gentrifying the city – boosting or busting poor neighbourhoods? Urban Environment Today , 27 June, p. 8.

Atkinson, R. (2002) Making places safe requires a comprehensive programme, Urban Environment Today , 7th February, p. 14.

Mullen, T., Scott, S. and Atkinson, R. (2000) Legal Remedies for Neighbour Nuisance, SCOLAG Legal Journal , December, pp. 8-9.

 

 

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