ABSTRACT
In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges and opportunities of the 21st century, as well as confronting long standing intractable urban problems and dilemmas.
This Companion provides cutting edge critical review and synthesis of recent conceptual, policy and practical developments within the field. With contributions from 70 international experts within the field, it explores the meaning of ‘urban regeneration’ in differing national contexts, asking questions and providing informed discussion and analyses to illuminate how an apparently disparate field of research, policy and practice can be rendered coherent, drawing out common themes and significant differences. The Companion is divided into six sections, exploring: globalization and neo-liberal perspectives on urban regeneration; emerging reconceptualizations of regeneration; public infrastructure and public space; housing and cosmopolitan communities; community centred regeneration; and culture-led regeneration. The concluding chapter considers the future of urban regeneration and proposes a nine-point research agenda.
This Companion assembles a diversity of approaches and insights in one comprehensive volume to provide a state of the art review of the field. It is a valuable resource for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Urban Planning, Built Environment, Urban Studies and Urban Regeneration, as well as academics, practitioners and politicians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|102 pages
Globalization and neo-liberal perspectives
chapter 4|10 pages
International Policy Transfer
chapter 5|11 pages
Evaluation of Urban Regeneration as a Government-Assisted Revenue Strategy in Turkey
chapter 7|10 pages
Urban Regeneration and Neo-Liberal State Reform
part 2|91 pages
Emerging reconceptualizations of urban regeneration
chapter 11|10 pages
Sustainable Urban Regeneration Within the European Union
chapter 12|11 pages
From State-Led to Developer-Led?
part 3|94 pages
Public infrastructure and public space
chapter 18|13 pages
Mass Transit is the Anchor
chapter 19|11 pages
The German Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) and Urban Regeneration
chapter 20|10 pages
Critical Success Factors in Urban Brownfield Regeneration
chapter 23|11 pages
Achieving Global Competitiveness and Local Poverty Reduction?
chapter 24|8 pages
Urban Regeneration
part 4|90 pages
Housing and cosmopolitan communities
chapter 27|10 pages
Housing Delivery Through Mixed-Use Urban Regeneration Schemes
chapter 28|11 pages
Housing- and Infrastructure-Led Regeneration in South Africa
chapter 30|13 pages
Greater Cairo's Housing Crisis
chapter 33|10 pages
Recovery of Social Housing and Infrastructure Costs in Urban Renewal
part 5|93 pages
Community-centred regeneration?
chapter 34|10 pages
Area-Based Approaches to Urban Regeneration: Innovation in Vain?
chapter 35|10 pages
Engaging Local Communities in Neighbourhood Regeneration in England
chapter 40|10 pages
Regeneration Through Social Enterprise
part 6|82 pages
Culture-led regeneration