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Title:

Whose urban renaissance? : an international comparison of urban regeneration strategies / edited by Libby Porter and Kate Shaw.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xxii, 291 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Urban renewal--Case studies.
City planning--Case studies.
Cities and towns--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Porter, Libby, 1973-
Shaw, Kate, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Kate Shaw and Libby Porter -- On urban renaissance strategies -- Top down vs bottom up: Doreen from Silwood, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders -- Class-cleansing in Istanbul's world-city project / Ibrahim G©ơndoßʹdu and Jamie Gough -- Believing in market forces in Johannesburg / Tanja Winkler -- Regeneration through urban mega-projects in Riyadh / Tahar Ledraa and Nasser Abu-Anzeh -- Regulation and property speculation in the centre of Mexico City / Beatriz Garc©Ưa-Peralta and Melanie Lombard -- Museumization and transformation in Florence / Laura Colini ... [et al.] -- Winners and losers from urban growth in South East England / Bob Colenutt -- On local limits to regeneration strategies -- When fish sing in Brussels / Ruth Pringle -- Renaissance through demolition in Leipzig / Matthias Bernt -- Image politics and stagnation in the Ruhr Valley / Sebastian M©ơller and Constance Carr --
Gentrification and the creative class in Berlin-Kreuzberg / Ingo Bader and Martin Bialluch -- On grass-roots struggles -- Gathering memories at the battlefront: www.oldbeijing.org / Yi Jing, Giovanni Allegretti and James McKay -- The contested reinvention of inner city Green Bay, Wisconsin / Marcelo Cruz -- Planning from below in Barcelona / Marc Mart©Ư-Costa and Jordi Bonet-Mart©Ư -- The ambiguous renaissance of Rome / Giovanni Allegretti and Carlo Cellamare -- Struggling against renaissance in Birmingham's Eastside / Libby Porter -- Urban renaissance and resistance in Toronto / Ute Lehrer -- Gentrification and community empowerment in East London / Claire Colomb -- On the possibilities of policy -- Gertrude Street Fitzroy / Rodger Cummins and Kate Shaw -- Heritage tourism and displacement in Salvador da Bahia / Elena Tarsi -- Retail gentrification in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona / N©ðria Pascual-Molinas and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz --
The Melbourne indie music scene and the inner city blues / Kate Shaw -- The embrace of Amsterdam's creative breeding ground / Bas van de Geyn and Jaap Draaisma -- The equitable regeneration of Berne / Angela Stienen and Daniel Blumer -- Searching for the "sweet spot" in San Francisco / Peter Cohen and Fernando Mart©Ư -- Bottom up sv top down -- Jess from Pepys, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders -- New theoretical and practical insights for urban policy -- Whose urban renaissance? / Libby Porter -- Rising to a challenge / Kate Shaw -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

Routledge studies in human geography ; 27

ISBN:

0203884531 (ebk)
9780203884539 (ebk)
0415456827 (hbk)
9780415456821 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233283709

LCCN:

2008028332

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)