Bohemianism and Urban Regeneration

Urban Regeneration in Stratford, London

In this paper we focus on the shift in British urban policy from the crudely authoritarian imposition of Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) upon poor localities in the 1980s to an apparently more devolved, localist strategy in the 1990s. This new approach offered to re-empower local government and respect local priorities in the framework of local ‘partnerships’ between government (central a...

Urban Regeneration Companies and City Centres

Urban regeneration has proved to be a testing and on-going challenge for both central government and local authorities within the UK and successful solutions have proved to be elusive, at best partial rather than comprehensive and often difficult to sustain. Long-term structural economic decline, the continuing shift from a manufacturing to a service and knowledge based economy, the relentless ...

SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION, AN ONGOING DISCOURSE (WESTERN) EUROPE, GERMANY

Pattern of Decision-Making Evaluation in Urban Regeneration

Evaluation is one of the most important necessities in the process of urban regeneration, which leads to the optimal decision to solve the problem of urban inefficiency. Evaluating decisions in the urban regeneration process, given its complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty, is a critical issue that requires identifying the criteria that affect its realization and using fuzzy decision-making met...

Brownfield regeneration – imperative for sustainable urban development

The possibility of revitalization of abandoned or insufficiently used industrial and commercial facilities and areas in towns, known as brownfield incentives, is analyzed in the paper. These facilities and areas are most often situated in central parts of towns, and their revitalisation results in creation of new facilities which often become symbols or landmarks of such towns. The meaning of b...