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Moscow is one of the largest capital cities in the world, and one with a longstanding legacy of city planning. The city has an imposing physical presence and vitality. In the 1990s city planning for Moscow has had to adapt to the collapse of the Soviet system, meet public expectations of more democratic processes, and meet the demands of a free market economy. This article examines the significance...
Cities, and in particular historic cities, are recognised as valuable resources within the increasingly competitive and integrated European economy. This paper focuses on the experiences of two such cities, Edinburgh and Prague, contrasting different approaches in local planning and urban regeneration policy. Edinburgh, like other western European capitalist cities, has a long tradition of strategic...
Despite the emergence of urban regeneration and sustainable development as parallel strands of British urban policy, there has been little co-ordination between them and an imbalance in action with greater emphasis given to achieving urban regeneration, especially economic regeneration, than to sustainability. It can be argued that all urban regeneration contributes to sustainable development through...
The role of local capacity building is central to the achievement of urban management objectives, particularly in the fields of regeneration and renewal. This is particularly the case in situations where local communities are attempting to respond to an urban crisis, where established relational webs and networks and the mobilisation capacity of the local policy community is critical. This paper focuses...
Swansea is a British regional city lying on the south-west margin of formerly industrial South Wales. Swansea’s industrial heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries was followed by severe deindustrialisation and economic decline during the second half of the 20th century leaving a variety of social, economic and environmental problems. In recent decades, these issues have been addressed with significant...
Madrid is undergoing powerful urban changes. As in other big cities, the economic and territorial restructuring also means deep social changes. Madrid’s socio-spatial configuration is becoming more segregated, with the recent evolution of the real estate industry one of the key issues of the process. In this context, different social groups have understood some of the urban projects implemented by...
This paper will explore the politics of waterfront development as it emerged around Cork’s preparation and tenure of the 2005 European Capital of Culture. Many cities in recent decades have encouraged the cultural sectors and the arts as a pathway for urban regeneration. As this strategy unfolded in Cork, the festival enabled new modes of urban entrepreneurial governance to be practiced and new visions...
The Baltic city of Gdańsk is world famous, having repeatedly played an important role in history: it was one of the dominant members of the Hanseatic League, it was the place where the first shots of the Second World War were fired and, as the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, it became an icon of resistance against communist rule east of the Iron Curtain. Today, like other large Polish cities,...
With more than 1.6 million inhabitants in the city proper and another 2.2 million in the immediate surrounding area Vienna, the capital of the Republic of Austria, is one of the largest cities in Europe. If the city is evaluated by its historical significance, cultural heritage or the quality of life it falls in the top rank. It is the specific image of Vienna which allows it to be seen as more important...
Turkish governments have discovered the potential in regenerating inner-city squatter housing areas, in order to increase the competitiveness of cities in the global context. Urban regeneration is defined as a spatial strategy in which prestigious urban uses have been increasing through private sector investments in public areas. These developments have opened new discussions on the displacement of...
One of Europe’s newest capital cities, Skopje occupies a unique geographical position at the intersection of several major transport corridors linking Central Europe with Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is a vibrant, dynamic and rapidly-transforming Balkan metropolis that has received very little academic attention to date. This is despite the city’s turbulent history, which has seen...
Urban regeneration projects have become a focus of attention in Istanbul due to tourism promotion, particularly great expectations from the European Capital of Culture 2010 Event. Sulukule, a Romani neighborhood on the historical peninsula of Istanbul, was designated as an urban redevelopment zone. The Sulukule Urban Regeneration Project is one of the recent efforts to present “a better urban environment”...
Throughout the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, culture has gained increasing importance in strategies designed to deal with new trajectories of urban areas. Post-industrial cities seek to revive former industrial, contaminated and waterfront sites and their city centers, as they are aiming to establish themselves in the new arena of the global market place.This paper looks at the relationships...
Gwangju is a metropolitan city located in the southwest of the Republic of Korea. The city was relatively socio-economically underdeveloped compared to other major Korean cities, particularly cities in the capital region and the southeast, until the 1980s. The central government’s former efficiency-oriented economic development policies, which focused on specific strategic locations in Korea, account...
Although Ankara has a long history, it is generally known for its twentieth century development as the designed capital of the newly-born Turkish nation-state. The early episode of the city’s growth displayed a typical example of modernization with the hand of a determined nationalist government. Yet, the second half of the century, also similar to other developing parts of the world, witnessed the...
Compared with the considerable number of studies on urban redevelopment highlighting the downside of wholesale redevelopment in breaking up communities, only limited reports exist on successful prevention of demolition of lived spaces in place-specific communities with strong social capital. Massive redevelopment and restructuring of the urban fabric have occurred in post-open door China. Top-down...
Since the 1980s, the redevelopment of squatter housing settlements has been a primary policy focus of the local and central authorities in Turkey. Their strategies have adopted two different models: one approach was not effective at generating redevelopment activity and produced low quality living environments, and the other approach resulted in dislocation and gentrification. The literature stresses...
Sustainability is widely accepted as an important conceptual framework within which to position urban policy and development. Furthermore, urban planning is recognised as an important instrument for promoting sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to examine how Finnish central business district developments are designed to facilitate environmental sustainability. Three recent urban...
Pragmatic Chinese ideological slogans like “groping for stones crossing the river”, “no matter if it’s a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice it’s a good cat” became guiding principles for a multitude of experimental approaches to new developments in the realms of Chinese economic, political, socio-cultural, and physical urban transformation since the beginning of reform and opening...
The preliminary stages of a large scale culture-led urban regeneration project initiated by the Korean government in Gwangju were studied. Stakeholders’ perceptions of culture’s contribution to urban regeneration and their views on collaborative partnerships were explored. Qualitative data were gathered via semi-structured interviews from 19 purposively selected stakeholders. This case study determined...
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