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Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change book cover

1st Edition

Urban Transformations Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change

Edited By Nicholas Wise, Julie Clark Copyright 2017
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Economic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbourhoods that were previously underpinned by industry and manufacturing. This has presented policy makers and city planners with a binary choice: to resist change and stagnate or to change and attempt to keep up with the pace of global demand.... Read more

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About the Authors



Forward





Geographies of renewal and creative change: Assessing urban transformations



Nicholas Wise & Julie Clark









  1. Writing the past into the fabric of the present: Urban regeneration in Glasgow’s East End




    2. Julie Clark & Rebecca Madgin





  2. Urban regeneration In Motion: The High Line as a traveling urban imaginary




    3. Ian Riekes Trivers





  3. Urban revitalization in a neoliberal key: Brownfield redevelopment in Michigan




    4. Mark D. Bjelland & Ian Noyes





  4. The New Main Street: Planning, politics and change in downtown Kent, Ohio




    5. Jennifer Mapes





  5. Beyond rail: Amenity Driven High Density Development for polycentric cities




    6. Jennifer L. Kitson, Stephen T. Buckman & David C. Folch





  6. Creating third places: Ethnic retailing and place-making in metropolitan Toronto




    7. Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang





  7. Place-making and place-breaking on the banks of the Clyde




    8. Georgiana Varna





  8. Renewal of Tehran's deteriorated neighbourhoods: Opportunities for identity building and meaning making?




    9. Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani





  9. When community and condos collide: The uneven geographies of housing wealth in mixed-income neighbourhood transformation




    10. Charles Barlow





  10. Examining the transformation of Regent Park, Toronto: Prioritizing hard and soft infrastructure




    11. Shauna Brail, Katerina Mizrokhi & Sonia Ralston





  11. Theorising neighbourhood inequality: The things we do with theory, the things it does to us




    12. Amie Thurber





  12. Developing a research agenda to assess local social impacts of sport

Biography

Nicholas Wise is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Community at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.



Julie Clark is an urban policy specialist, lecturing in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

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