Part One: The role of community in urban policy - debates: The importance of community in urban policy Rob Imrie and Mike Raco; Social capital and neighbourhood renewal Ade Kearns; Community regeneration and the discursive construction of 'urban renaissance' Loretta Lees; Part Two: Community involvement in urban policy - the evidence: Addressing urban exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration: possibilities and constraints Rob Atkinson; Community participation in multi-level urban governance Annette Hastings; 'Pathways to integration': community involvement in urban regeneration on Merseyside Richard Meegan; Community action and partnerships for urban regeneration - new sites of struggle? Peter North; Contradictions in 'tackling social exclusion' in communities: issues of redistribution, recognition and respect in a Single Regeneration Project in Blackbird Leys estate, Oxford Zoe Morrison; Community, disability and the discourses of the Single Regeneration Budget Claire Edwards; Citizenship, community and participation in small towns: a case study of regeneration partnerships Mark Goodwin; Economy, equity or empowerment? Urban policy evaluation and discourses of community involvement Stuart Wilks-Heeg; Part Three: The future for community in urban policy: The new urban policy: towards empowerment or incorporation? Allan Cochrane; Assessing the prospects for community involvement in urban policy: will 'community' remain a meaningful term? Mike Raco.