ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to explain the redevelopment of previously derelict inner city and city fringe industrial sites. The goal is to consider changes both in the role of the state and the role of capital in this process. The argument developed here highlights the importance both of a consideration of the state and, in particular, of the analysis of changes in the mode of regulation. The chapter is illustrated first, with material on the Use Class Order and change of use – especially with regards to high-tech property that occurred in the late 1980s – and, second, with a case study of an industrial district – the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. This latter case is a very rich example as it brings together the themes of deindustrialization, urban regeneration, state and property.
