ABSTRACT
The academic and policy focus of urban regeneration, and indeed the content of this textbook, have concentrated principally on the inner city and city centre. This is because spatially these are the areas that have experienced the most severe economic, social and environmental decline. Additionally, most urban regeneration research has focused on transformations in the central geographical area. This chapter redresses the balance to a degree by exploring and tracing the extension of the urban regeneration agenda beyond central cities, to suburban and exurban developments. The first section provides a context by examining the changing geographical nature of suburban areas and exurban developments, with reference to wider urban spatial models applicable to the US and the UK. It then focuses on regeneration initiatives aimed at the suburbs and at edge cities in the UK.
U R B A N S PAT I A L M O D E L S A N D C H A N G I N G S U BU R B S
