Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

by Porter; Libby

• ISBN13: 9780415456821
• ISBN10: 0415456827
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Researchers in 21 world cities examine specific cases of urban regeneration. They focus on the policies driving the process and the way these policies work, on instances of opposition and active struggle, and on the occasional policy interventions that are used to ameliorate the negative impacts of gentrification.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xiii
Notes on contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
On urban renaissance strategies	p. 9
Top down vs bottom up: Doreen from Silwood, a social housing estate in South London	p. 11
Class cleansing in Istanbul's world-city project	p. 16
Believing in market forces in Johannesburg	p. 25
Regeneration through urban mega-projects in Riyadh	p. 34
Regulation and property speculation in the centre of Mexico City	p. 43
Museumization and transformation in Florence	p. 50
Winners and losers from urban growth in South East England	p. 60
On local limits to regeneration strategies	p. 71
When fish sing in Brussels	p. 73
Renaissance through demolition in Leipzig	p. 75
Image politics and stagnation in the Ruhr Valley	p. 84
Gentrification and the creative class in Berlin-Kreuzberg	p. 93
On grass-roots struggles	p. 103
Gathering memories at the battlefront: www.oldbeijing.org	p. 105
The contested reinvention of inner city Green Bay, Wisconsin	p. 110
Planning from below in Barcelona	p. 118
The ambiguous renaissance of Rome	p. 129
Struggling against renaissance in Birmingham's Eastside	p. 139
Urban renaissance and resistance in Toronto	p. 147
Gentrification and community empowerment in East London	p. 157
On the possibilities of policy	p. 167
Gertrude Street Fitzroy	p. 169
Heritage tourism and displacement in Salvador da Bahia	p. 171
Retail gentrification in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona	p. 180
The Melbourne indie music scene and the inner city blues	p. 191
The embrace of Amsterdam's creative breeding ground	p. 202
The equitable regeneration of Berne	p. 212
Searching for the 'sweet spot' in San Francisco	p. 222
Bottom up vs top down: Jess from Pepys, a social housing estate in South London	p. 234
New theoretical and practical insights for urban policy	p. 239
Whose urban renaissance?	p. 241
Rising to a challenge	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 279
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