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Urban Regeneration (urban + regeneration)
Selected Abstracts"Rock Landmark at Risk": Popular Music, Urban Regeneration, and the Built Urban EnvironmentJOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES, Issue 1 2007Sara Cohen [source] Diversions and diversity: Does the personalisation agenda offer real opportunities for taking children's home literacies seriously?ENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 2 2009Marilyn Mottram Abstract This paper argues that the current commitment to personalised learning opens up real opportunities for changing the language and practice of literacy teaching as it currently operates in England. We argue that there is a need to seize the opportunities currently on offer, to educate teachers differently and to develop classroom practice and pedagogies that acknowledge the complexities of children's lives and literacies. We draw on evidence from a year-long ethnographic research study, conducted between 2006,2007, of fourteen children and their families. The children attended the same inner city primary school in an area of urban regeneration characterised by high levels of economic deprivation, high crime and many social problems. The resulting evidence suggests that personalising learning becomes a reality when teachers are given space and time to develop their understanding of the uses and meaning of literacy in the communities they serve. [source] CREATIVE CITIES: THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND THE CREATIVE CLASSGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2008Andy C. Pratt ABSTRACT. The aim of this article is to critically examine the notion that the creative class may or may not play as a causal mechanism of urban regeneration. I begin with a review of Florida's argument focusing on the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings. The second section develops a critique of the relationship between the creative class and growth. This is followed by an attempt to clarify the relationship between the concepts of creativity, culture and the creative industries. Finally, I suggest that policy-makers may achieve more successful regeneration outcomes if they attend to the cultural industries as an object that links production and consumption, manufacturing and service. Such a notion is more useful in interpreting and understanding the significant role of cultural production in contemporary cities, and what relation it has to growth. [source] Feature Environmental geophysics: a site characterization tool for urban regeneration in the post-mining eraGEOLOGY TODAY, Issue 5 2003Peter Styles The closure and decay of industrial activity involving mining, chemical or light industrial operations has scarred the landscape of urban areas. The Government has major initiatives in urban regeneration to remediate these ,brown-field sites'. [source] Urban labour, voice and legitimacy: economic development and the emergence of community unionismINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2009Graham Symon ABSTRACT Community unionism has emerged in the past decade as a growing strand of industrial relations research and is influencing trade union strategies for renewal. This article seeks to further develop the concept, while exploring the potential roles for unions in communities subject to projects of urban regeneration. [source] Tourism and economic regeneration: the role of skills developmentINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Issue 3 2001Rhodri Thomas Abstract An increasing number of local economic development agencies in the UK are turning to tourism as a means of urban regeneration and employment creation. Although initiatives vary, there is a nationally inspired emphasis on the development of employee skills as a core element of many regeneration strategies. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study of the demand for and utilisation of skills by tourism firms in East London, an area that is the recipient of substantial urban aid funding, a proportion of which has an overt focus on skills enhancement designed to develop the tourism sector. It then examines the processes of skills supply within the locality. The paper concludes by identifying the key issues likely to be important if regeneration programmes are to be effective. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] MANAGING COMPETITION IN CITY SERVICES: THE CASE OF BARCELONAJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 5 2009GERMĄ BEL ABSTRACT:,"Clean and safe" strategies are part of urban regeneration in the entrepreneurial city. These strategies are often characterized by privatization and public,private partnerships that enhance investment and create a city space more amenable to tourists and consumers. While such approaches promote increased investment, and differentiate services by district, they raise challenges of competition, cost escalation, and public participation. Barcelona's solid waste management strategy is presented to show the importance of a strong public coordination role when using competition to promote technological innovation and improved quality in city service delivery. [source] Partnerships versus Regimes: Why Regime Theory Cannot Explain Urban Coalitions in the UKJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2003Jonathan S. Davies Regime theory, as developed by Elkin and Stone, neither describes nor explains the contrasting forms of collaboration in the UK. The development of urban regeneration partnerships has been driven by a combination of two main factors: the development of an ideological perception within local government elites that urban regeneration depends on market led growth, and a series of central government regeneration initiatives. These initiatives, designed to encourage, and where necessary coerce, local authorities into cooperative arrangements have resulted in highly bureaucratized, but symbolic, partnerships with local business elites. Business activity in these partnerships thus far has been marginal. It is unlikely to be fruitful, therefore, for scholars to seek Stonean regimes in the UK. On the other hand, to describe such partnerships as regimes is misleading and results in a lack of conceptual clarity. Despite the fashion for copying urban policy from the US, the institutions of urban politics in the UK are likely to remain resolutely different. [source] The governance of urban regeneration: a critique of the ,governing without government' thesisPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2 2002Jonathan S. DaviesArticle first published online: 17 DEC 200 This paper offers a critique of the concept of governance as networks. Using the complementary concept of regime governance, it argues that networks are not the primary mode of governance in the politics of urban regeneration in the UK. Drawing on primary and secondary material, it is argued that Central Government is becoming more influential in the local policy arena. In the ,mix' of market, hierarchy and network, hierarchy is more pervasive than network. It is therefore argued that partnerships should be treated as a distinct mode of governance. These conclusions demonstrate that despite the fashion for copying urban policies from the USA, local politics in the UK remain very different. Ironically, the transfer of policies developed in the USA has tended to entrench divergent practices and outcomes. The UK does not, therefore, appear to be moving toward the US model of regime politics. It is concluded that the partnership and network/regime models of governance should be subjected to rigorous comparative studies. [source] SOCIAL CAPITAL & FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONSTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2007CHRISTINE HEPWORTH This year is the twentieth anniversary of the germinal report ,Faith in the City' which first drew attention to the concerns of religious agencies whose remit is to tackle growing multiple deprivation in the UK. Since then, the role of faith-based organisations (FBOs) as mediators of welfare provision, urban regeneration and community development has attracted little attention from sociologists despite claims that such roles are becoming increasingly important. Successive UK governments have highlighted the potential of religious congregations in enhancing social capital and promoting social cohesion. The seminal work of Greg Smith (University of East London) emphasises this theme while other sociological literature in this area (mainly American, e.g., Putnam) argues that FBOs in the community provide a degree of social support and relationship structures that accumulate as social capital resources. This discussion paper is an attempt to open up the debate on the ways in which FBOs can develop and enhance the social capital value of local community groups. [source] How to reach the ,hard-to-reach': the development of Participatory Geographic Information Systems (P-GIS) for inclusive urban design in UK citiesAREA, Issue 2 2010Steve Cinderby Sustainable development and successful urban regeneration ideally require engagement with the affected communities. Existing methods employed by policymakers and planners often fail to reach significant segments of communities, the so-called ,hard-to-reach'. This paper describes the development of an innovative participatory GIS methodology specifically aimed at overcoming the barriers to engagement experienced by these groups. The application of the method is illustrated with reference to three recent case studies carried out in UK cities. The paper will then discuss the novelty of this approach in comparison with other participatory engagement techniques. The ethical implications of the technique are also discussed. [source] Titanic Town: Sport, Space and the Re-imag(in)ing of BelfastCITY & SOCIETY, Issue 2 2006ALAN BAIRNER This article discusses the extent to which Belfast's sporting spaces are implicated in a process whereby the city has been transformed since the cessation of widespread political violence. The discussion takes readers to the city's traditional sporting venues, comments on the relationship between sporting spaces and urban regeneration and assesses the extent to which, if at all, Belfast can become a "winning city" by virtue of its new and proposed sports facilities. Particular attention is paid to the concept of public space with reference to the Odyssey Arena and the planned national stadium. It is argued that for a variety of reasons, it is unlikely that Belfast can be transformed into a mecca for sports enthusiasts. The evidence upon which this conclusion is based is largely drawn from the author's personal ethnographic reading of the city and its people. [Northern Ireland, Belfast, sports, ethnic conflict, public space] [source] | |||||||||||||