Framing Strategic Urban Projects: Learning from Current Experiences in European Urban Regions

by Salet, Willem; Gualini, Enrico

• ISBN13: 9780203966129
• ISBN10: 0203966120
• Copyright: 2006-12-14
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

In the 1990s, large-scale urban projects were launched in almost every metropolitan region of Europe. Several years on, the much-anticipated positive results of the innovative integration of economic and sustainable objectives have not always been apparent. To be successfully implemented, strategic urban projects require the successful coordination of collective action in a fragmented metropolitan setting, which often involves crossing barriers set up by the sector-minded, single-issue approaches typical of statutory territorial agencies. This book explores why existing projects have achieved such mixed results, and suggests new ways of thinking about strategic urban projects in future.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Theoretical framework	p. 1
Framing strategic urban projects	p. 3
Institutional capacity and planning milieux in European urban regions: an introduction to the case studies	p. 20
Experiences of strategic projects in European city-regions	p. 51
Amsterdam Zuidas: the dream of 'new urbanity'
Barcelona Universal Forum 2004: culture as driver of urban economy	p. 84
Berlin-Adlershof: local steps into global networks	p. 115
Brussels Tour & Taxis: entrepreneurship versus the fragmented city	p. 146
Copenhagen Orestad: public partnership in search of the market	p. 172
Strasbourg Parc d'Innovation d'Illkirch: a technopole French-style	p. 199
Vienna Erdberger Mais: public-sector driven long-term planning strategies	p. 223
Conclusions	p. 247
Assessing strategic urban projects: findings and recommendations	p. 249
Appendix	p. 277
Index	p. 297
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