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Regenerating London
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Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City
Regenerating London
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Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City
Edited ByRob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 19 December 2008
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 368
eBook ISBN 9780203886717
Subjects Built Environment, Urban Studies
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Imrie, R., Lees, L., & Raco, M. (Eds.). (2009). Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203886717
ABSTRACT
Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I The dimensions of urban change in London
chapter 2|16 pages
Planning London: a conversation with Peter Hall
Edited ByRob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco
chapter 4|15 pages
Governing London: the evolving institutional and planning landscape
ByMARK TEWDWR-JONES
part |2 pages
Part II Prestige projects and the sustainable city
chapter 5|18 pages
Figuring city change: understanding urban regeneration and Britain’s Thames Gateway
ByBritain’s Thames Gateway MICHAEL KEITH
chapter 6|19 pages
‘An exemplar for a sustainable world city’: progressive urban change and the redevelopment of King’s Cross
ByROB IMRIE
chapter 7|20 pages
Local government and the politics of fl agship regeneration in London: the development of Paddington
ByMIKE RACO, STEVEN HENDERSON
chapter 8|17 pages
The 2012 Olympic Games and the reshaping of East London
ByEast London GAVIN POYNTER
part |2 pages
Part III Sustainability, inclusion and social mixing
chapter 9|22 pages
The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable, inclusive, and liveable urban form
ByRICHARD BAXTER, LORETTA LEES
chapter 10|19 pages
London’s Blue Ribbon Network: riverside renaissance along the Thames
ByMARK DAVIDSON
chapter 11|20 pages
The promotion of London as a ‘walkable city’ and overlapping walks of life
ByJENNIE MIDDLETON
part |2 pages
Part IV Community governance and urban change
chapter 13|17 pages
Regenerating the South Bank: reworking community and the emergence of post-political regeneration
ByGUY BAETEN
chapter 14|19 pages
The disputed place of ethnic diversity: an ethnography of the redevelopment of a street market in East London
ByNICK DINES
chapter 15|16 pages
From a ‘society of fear’ to a ‘society of respect’: the transformation of Hackney’s Holly Street Estate
ByTONY MANZI, KEITH JACOBS
chapter 16|22 pages
Young people and the regeneration of the King’s Cross Ten Estates
ByTen Estates NINA BROWN AND LORETTA LEES
part |2 pages
Part V Conclusions
