Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe's cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public ...goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in these schemes in cities of three advanced European economies. It researches the outcomes of actor interactions as these transform under the influence of changing market circumstances and associated risks. The book focuses on the way this change is reflected in the provision of mixed-use developments within a context of increasingly polarised housing markets and urban growth patterns. It argues that although these schemes can and do deliver much-needed dwellings, their exposure to market risks may in many cases cause them to fall short of the desired socio-economically sustainable outcomes.
This paper tries to dive into the fact that Modern Architecture and Feminism were born at the same time. It begins by explaining how along Modernity supposedly feminine attributes were thought as the ...way to achieve a better society. With the impact that the Industrial Revolution had they were the key concepts on which Modern Architecture was founded. It had two main utopias, Radiant City by Le Corbusier and Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like every model that is put into reality, they both degenerated in urban renewal and suburbia. Two women, who were neither architects, nor planners denounced it. Betty Friedan, a feminist, explains how Suburbia kept as prisoners all the women in her book The Feminine Mystique (1963). Jane Jacobs, a journalist, fought against the destruction of popular neighborhoods by urban renewal in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
As urban renewal mode has transformed from massive demolition and reconstruction to stock improvement and upgrading, the environment design major also goes through constant changes to cope with the ...various problems in urban regeneration. In light of this situation, there is an urgent need to reform the teaching of environmental design courses, including teaching methods and modes. This study focuses on the teaching reform of the design of graduation projects from 2019 to 2022 to illustrate the transformation of training concepts, the teaching reform and selection of graduation projects, the research of teaching mode innovation, multiple teaching methods, various modes of presentation, and the organization and implementation of the teaching process composed of “three dimensions and four links”. The study aims to integrate the course teaching with practices, achieve cultural output and revival in the process of upgrading and renewal, and improve students’problem-solving capacity and their ability to innovate so that they can be more qualified for future jobs.
Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its ...frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and exclusion operating at different scales and speeds, it always ruptures the connection between people and place. On this basis – and recognising displacement as a form of violence – this paper concludes that the diverse scales and temporalities of displacement need to be better elucidated so that their negative emotional, psychosocial and material impacts can be more fully documented, and resisted.
The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban ...competition often had negative environmental consequences for the urban living place. Yet knowledge of the environment was not very central to understanding the NUP. Entrepreneurial urban regimes today are struggling to deal with climate change and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.Carbon reduction strategies could have profound implications for interurban competition and the politics of urban development. This paper explores the rise of a distinctive low-carbon urban polity—carbon control—and examines its potential ramifications for a new environmental politics of urban development (NEPUD).The NEPUD signals the growing centrality of carbon control in discourses, strategies and struggles around urban development. Using examples from cities in the US and Europe, the paper examines how these new environmental policy considerations are being mainstreamed in urban development politics. Alongside competitiveness, the management of carbon emissions represents a new yet at the same time contestable mode of calculation in urban governance.
A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs ...compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab "instant city," but a place influenced by deep local history.
Serial forced displacement has been defined as the repetitive, coercive upheaval of groups. In this essay, we examine the history of serial forced displacement in American cities due to federal, ...state, and local government policies. We propose that serial forced displacement sets up a dynamic process that includes an increase in interpersonal and structural violence, an inability to react in a timely fashion to patterns of threat or opportunity, and a cycle of fragmentation as a result of the first two. We present the history of the policies as they affected one urban neighborhood, Pittsburgh’s Hill District. We conclude by examining ways in which this problematic process might be addressed.
This paper analyzes the federal urban renewal and slum clearance program. This program was one of the largest and most controversial policies used to rehabilitate neighborhoods in the United States. ...Using a newly constructed dataset, I examine the characteristics of neighborhoods cleared for redevelopment and the effect that such projects had on neighborhoods over time. I show that conditional on experiencing urban blight, Black neighborhoods were twice as likely as white neighborhoods to be targeted for clearance. Redevelopment led to a decline in housing density, population density, and the share of Black residents while simultaneously increasing median rents and incomes.
•The urban renewal and slum clearance program redeveloped blighted urban neighborhoods in the second half of the twentieth century.•Black neighborhoods were twice as likely as white neighborhoods to be redeveloped conditional on experiencing urban blight.•Redevelopment caused persistent declines in population density, housing density, and the share of Black residents.•Redevelopment also increased median rents and median incomes.
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