ABSTRACT
This chapter asks what the experience of urban regeneration in a severely divided society can teach us about who benefits, and why. Northern Ireland is a society emerging from the violent chapter of the ‘troubles’, with a new government structure now facing the task of managing the region’s share of reduced public expenditure in the UK in the aftermath of the 2008 credit crunch. The two Belfast case studies, Crumlin Road Gaol/Girdwood Park and Titanic Quarter, are analysed through a production– consumption–governance framework that shows that state, market and civil society will interact in different ways depending upon the type of regeneration and the local issues involved, thus assisting an understanding of who benefits.
