MURTAGH, Brendan <br/><br/>
The URBAN Communituy Initiative in Northern Ireland 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> Urban policy has been inextricably tied to the management of the Northern Ireland conflict. The arrival of the EU URBAN Community Initiative 1994-99 struck a discordant not in the attempt to revitalise town centres, level property capital and produce positive place imagery. This article reviews the experiences of the Inititative in Derry/Londonderry and suggests that its concern for spatial poverty, community participation and social regeneration has much to offer policy and politics in Northern Ireland`s uncertain transition to post-conflict stability. A local White Paper is proposed in order to ground policy in the reality of post-industrial change, ethnoreligious segregation and the need to reach out do Northern Ireland`s most disaffected communities