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Fourteen years have passed since Brisbane was profiled in Cities by Stephen Hamnett. The Brisbane-SEQ Metro Region, which incorporates the Brisbane and the surrounding Moreton statistical divisions, has been a net gainer in one of the largest demographic shifts seen in Australia. This sprawling low density metropolis has emerged as a sun-belt destination for in-migrants. Growth has spread out from...
There are few processes more central to the social and cultural transformation of the inner city in the past half century than gentrification. The social and economic changes that have engendered gentrification have transformed its character and meaning; it has become principally a strategy for redevelopment of brown field sites by the state and capital interests. Based on research in the formerly...
There is a growing need to understand interactions between land use policies and the development of impervious surfaces. This paper (1) develops an approach to quantify impervious surface change in urban areas using multi-temporal remotely-sensed data sets; and (2) links observed change to change in land use policies. Cixi County in Zhejiang Province, China was used as a representative case study...
The affordability of housing in China is a pressing social and economic issue, particularly for rural migrants. The provision of more social housing is a key element of current policies. Paradoxically, ‘villages in the city’ (ViCs) – which provide the majority of affordable housing for rural migrants – face the threat of, or have already undergone, demolition and redevelopment. This article explores...
This article examines variations in residents' responses to proposals to redevelop three public housing neighbourhoods in Dublin using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the outcomes their resistance achieved. It investigates the important role that structures of participation and representation and local social cohesion play in developing effective resident resistance to displacement and gentrification...
In early 2014 the announced sale of 300 public housing dwellings in Millers Point and the proposed relocation of tenants to other parts of the city sparked a media storm. Millers Point is a prime location in central Sydney, and while some media commentary was initially supportive of dispersal a highly organized protest campaign involving various non-government organizations, the City Council, parliamentary...
Mixed-income redevelopment has become a go-to approach for restructuring post-war public housing in advanced capitalist nations. In Regent Park, Canada's first and largest project, revitalization is underway to create a mixed-use, mixed-income community — with rebuilt public housing, condos, and a redesigned landscape. While tenants face negative impacts related to relocation, displacement and gentrification,...
This paper is a three-part assessment of the history of public housing in Richmond, Virginia and an account of current efforts to create a progressive model for public housing redevelopment in the city. Part One provides a short history of Richmond's creation of nearly exclusively African-American public housing in the East End of the city in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and describes a regional context...
Following nearly three decades of urban sprawl, China's urbanization has entered a new era of land redevelopment that encompasses built-up land in villages in a manner that is unprecedented. Village redevelopment involves both dramatic institutional change and governance restructuring. The extant literature on this redevelopment focuses primarily on top-down initiatives launched by urban governments,...
To the modernist and image building Chinese state, urban villages are unique but a transitional phenomenon of urbanization where peri-urban peasants have built substandard informal houses for low-income earners. Since the late 2000s, the Beijing government began forced redevelopment of urban villages at prime and strategically located sites. Potential of high value returns has enabled the municipal...
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