Whose Urban Renaissance?
An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or gentrification as it can often become - produces winners and losers. There is a substantial literature on the causes and unequal effects of gentrification, and on the global and local conditions driving processes of dis- and re-investment. But there is little examination of the actual strategies used to achieve urban regeneration - what were their i…
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Weitere Autoren: Shaw, Kate (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-134-10609-7
- EAN: 9781134106097
- Produktnummer: 15000254
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'110 KB
- Abbildungen: 56 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 38 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 18 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Kate Shaw has a background in alternative cultures and activism. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and works on cultural diversity, gentrification, housing markets and urban policy and planning. She is a well-known media commentator and gives policy advice to various Melbourne councils and local campaigns.Libby Porter is Lecturer in Planning in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has an interest in the way in which planning conceptualises place and the implications of this for marginalised peoples and places, with particular application to planning in postcolonial societies.
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