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The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

Edited By Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy Copyright 2013
616 Pages
by Routledge

616 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

616 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction Section 1. Globalization and Neo-liberal Perspectives 1. Introduction 2. Modernist Narratives of Renewal and the Historiography of Urban Regeneration 3. The Changing Context of Urban Regeneration in North West Europe 4. Just Add Water: Waterfront Regeneration as a Global Phenomenon 5. International Policy Transfer: Business Improvement Districts and Enterprise Zones in the UK 6. Evolution of Urban Regeneration as a Government-assisted Revenue Strategy in Turkey: The Global Imperative 7. Neoliberal-inspired Large-scale Urban Development Projects in Chinese Cities 8. Urban Regeneration and Neo-liberal State Reform: Changing Roles of Cities in the Japanese Developmental State 9. The Blessing in Disguise: Urban Regeneration in Poland in a Neo-liberal Milieu 10. Local-global Influences on Project-led Urban Renewal in Durban, South Africa Section 2. Emerging Reconceptualizations of Regeneration 11. Introduction 12. Urban Regeneration in Asia: Mega Projects and Heritage Conservation 13. Sustainable Urban Regeneration within the European Union: A case of ‘Europeanization’? 14. From State-led to Developer-led? The Dynamics of Urban Renewal Policies in Taiwan 15. Regenerating What? The Politics and Geographies of Actually Existing Regeneration 16. Urban Regeneration and The City of Experts 17. Regenerating the Core – Or is it Periphery? Reclaiming Waterfronts in US Cities 18. Regeneration for Some: Degeneration for Others 19. Urban Regeneration and the Social Economy Section 3. Public Infrastructure and Public Space 20. Introduction 21. Mass Transit is the Anchor: Transit-focused Urban Regeneration Across the Pacific Rim 22. The German Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) and Urban Regeneration: Le

Biography

Dr Michael E. Leary is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the MA Planning Policy and the MA Urban Regeneration at London South Bank University. Michael qualified as a Chartered Town Planner in the 1980s. Over the years he has worked in public sector planning and as a planning consultant.





Dr John McCarthy is a Reader in Urban Studies in the Institute for Building and Urban Design, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University. John worked as a planning practitioner in the public sector in London in the 1980s, and has worked in academia at the University of Dundee and Heriot-Watt University.

"With international scholarship and case studies from every continent, this Companion is destined to be an essential reference for anyone interested in urban regeneration. Accessible essays cover every aspect of the problems cities face worldwide and report on the solutions that have been tried using the latest research." Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy, Director of UCL Environment Institute, UCL.

"The Companion is extraordinary in the scope of the cases covered. Focusing on Europe and Asia, it points to the similarities and differences among a vast number of projects in developing and developed countries. It shows the effects of neoliberalism on regeneration programs but also the ways in which resistance to megaprojects has been effective." Susan S. Fainstein, Visiting Professor, LKY School, National University of Singapore and Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

"Leary and McCarthy’s impressive collection of papers is a timely reminder that urban regeneration is not confined to the glamour cities of North America or the command and control centers of the EU. Urban regeneration is global, complex, multi-faceted and not always right." Professor Robin Boyle, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, USA.

"This book packs in-depth analyses of urban regeneration processes from 70 international experts into six accessible sections examining topic areas from emerging reconceptualizations of regeneration and community centered regeneration to neo-liberal perspectives and culture-led regeneration. With ambitious goals, Leary and McCarthy deliver." Mehdi Comeau in CITIES

"This volume is successful overall because the international case studies and comparisons presented help bring into focus the challenges and co

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