ABSTRACT
Since the 1960s notions of what have been termed ‘urban regeneration’ or ‘urban renewal’ have become increasingly prominent within public policy circles as a result of the attempts made at restructuring of cities and their economies in the face of deindustrialization. At the outset, it is important to stress that there is no single agreed defi nition of the terms ‘urban regeneration’ or ‘urban renewal’. The former, however, might be seen as ‘a comprehensive integrated vision and action which leads to the resolution of urban problems and which seeks to bring about lasting change in the economic, social, physical and environmental condition of an area that has been the subject of change’ (Roberts and Sykes, 2000, p. 17). The latter, for its part, is a more limited term, essentially concerned with the physical replacement of worn-out or dilapidated areas of the city.
