The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges and opportunities of the 21st century, as well as confronting long standing intractable urban problems and dilemmas.

This Companion provides cutting edge critical review and synthesis of recent conceptual, policy and practical developments within the field. With contributions from 70 international experts within the field, it explores the meaning of ?urban regeneration? in differing national contexts, asking questions and providing informed discussion and analyses to illuminate how an apparently disparate field of research, policy and practice can be rendered coherent, drawing out common themes and significant differences. The Companion is divided into six sections, exploring: globalization and neo-liberal perspectives on urban regeneration; emerging reconceptualizations of regeneration; public infrastructure and public space; housing and cosmopolitan communities; community centred regeneration; and culture-led regeneration. The concluding chapter considers the future of urban regeneration and proposes a nine-point research agenda.

This Companion assembles a diversity of approaches and insights in one comprehensive volume to provide a state of the art review of the field. It is a valuable resource for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Urban Planning, Built Environment, Urban Studies and Urban Regeneration, as well as academics, practitioners and politicians.

Introduction Section 1. Globalization and Neo-liberal Perspectives 1. Introduction 2. Modernist Narratives of Renewal and the Historiography of Urban Regeneration 3. The Changing Context of Urban Regeneration in North West Europe 4. Just Add Water: Waterfront Regeneration as a Global Phenomenon 5. International Policy Transfer: Business Improvement Districts and Enterprise Zones in the UK 6. Evolution of Urban Regeneration as a Government-assisted Revenue Strategy in Turkey: The Global Imperative7. Neoliberal-inspired Large-scale Urban Development Projects in Chinese Cities8. Urban Regeneration and Neo-liberal State Reform: Changing Roles of Cities in the Japanese Developmental State 9. The Blessing in Disguise: Urban Regeneration in Poland in a Neo-liberal Milieu 10. Local-global Influences on Project-led Urban Renewal in Durban, South AfricaSection 2. Emerging Reconceptualizations of Regeneration 11. Introduction 12. Urban Regeneration in Asia: Mega Projects and Heritage Conservation 13. Sustainable Urban Regeneration within the European Union: A case of ‘Europeanization’?14. From State-led to Developer-led? The Dynamics of Urban Renewal Policies in Taiwan 15. Regenerating What? The Politics and Geographies of Actually Existing Regeneration 16. Urban Regeneration and The City of Experts17. Regenerating the Core – Or is it Periphery? Reclaiming Waterfronts in US Cities 18. Regeneration for Some: Degeneration for Others 19. Urban Regeneration and the Social EconomySection 3. Public Infrastructure and Public Space 20. Introduction21. Mass Transit is the Anchor: Transit-focused Urban Regeneration Across the Pacific Rim22. The German Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) and Urban Regeneration: Lessons from the IBA Emscher Park22. Critical Success Factors in Urban Brownfield Regeneration: Bringing ‘Hardcore’ Sites in Manchester and Osaka Back into Use 23. The Integration of Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration in Melbourne 24. Cultural Regeneration, Diversity and the Making of Democratic Public Space 25. Achieving Global Competitiveness and Local Poverty Reduction? The Tale of a Public-private Partnership for Urban Regeneration in Bangalore, India 26. Urban Regeneration: The ‘improvisation’ Tactics From the Favelas vs. the ‘Spectacularization’ of Public SpaceSection 4. Housing and Cosmopolitan Communities 27. Introduction 28. Housing-led Urban Regeneration: Place, Planning and Politics 29. Housing Delivery Through Mixed-use Urban Regeneration Schemes: A European Comparison30. Housing and Infrastructure-led Regeneration in South Africa: A Case Study of Johannesburg and Tshwane Metropolitan Municipalities 31. Bad Memories and Good Prospects for Housing-led Urban Regeneration Projects in Nigeria32. Greater Cairo’s Housing Crisis: Contested Suburban Communities and the Fragmentation of New Cairo City 33. Regenerating Through Social Mixing: Origins, Aims and Strategies 34. Transnational Neighborhoods and the Metropolitan Community35. Recovery of Social Housing and Infrastructure Costs in Urban Renewal: Some Lessons from Turkey Section 5. Community-centred Regeneration 36. Introduction 37. Area-based Approaches to Urban Regeneration: Innovation in Vain? A Comparison of Evidence from UK and Denmark38. Engaging Local Communities in Neighbourhood Regeneration in England: An Evaluation of Aims, Objectives and Outcomes39. From Sin City to Cine City – Re-peeling of Taipei’s Skin-peeling Alley 40. Negotiating Participatory Regeneration in the Post-Socialist Inner City 41. Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Community Development in Historic Neighborhoods of Istanbul 42. The Changing Landscape of Community-led Regeneration in Scotland43. Regeneration Through Social Enterprise: Government-led and Community-driven Initiatives in Britain and Japan44. Whose Urban Regeneration? Two Belfast Case StudiesSection 6. Culture-led Regeneration 45. Introduction 46. The Neo-liberal Turn: ‘Culture’-led Urban Regeneration in Shanghai 47. Toward Sustainable Culture-led regeneration 48. The Regenerative Impacts of the European City/Capital of Culture Events49. Culture-led Urban Regeneration: The Discursive Politics of Institutional Change 50. Culture-led Downtown Regeneration or Creative Gentrification? 51. Stadiums, Public Spaces and Mega-events: Cultural and Sports Facilities as Catalysts for Urban Regeneration and Development52. Neo-liberal Exceptionalism in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Port Regeneration53. Conclusions and Aspirations For the Future of Urban Regeneration

Dr Michael E. Leary is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the MA Planning Policy and the MA Urban Regeneration at London South Bank University. Michael qualified as a Chartered Town Planner in the 1980s. Over the years he has worked in public sector planning and as a planning consultant.

Dr John McCarthy is a Reader in Urban Studies in the Institute for Building and Urban Design, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University. John worked as a planning practitioner in the public sector in London in the 1980s, and has worked in academia at the University of Dundee and Heriot-Watt University.