Whose urban renaissance? : an international comparison of urban regeneration strategies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Porter, Libby, 1973-, Shaw, Kate, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge studies in human geography ; 27.
Subjects:
Table of 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 Gündoǧdu 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 García-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 Müller 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 Martí-Costa and Jordi Bonet-Martí
  • 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 / Núria 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 Martí
  • 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.