Housing, Regeneration and Planning: Research Findings No.25/2009: Literature review: policies adopted to support a healthy retail sector and retail led regeneration and the impact of retail on the regeneration of town centres and local high streets

Literature Review: Policies Adopted to Support a Healthy Retail Sector and Retail Led Regeneration and the Impact of Retail on the Regeneration of Town Centres and Local High Streets

Healthy Cities: The Impact of Food Retail-led Regeneration on Food Access, Choice and Retail Structure

The health, social and planning policy agendas which have focused on the issue of food deserts, food access and food choice provide the context for this study of the outcomes of a large scale food retail intervention in Springburn, Glasgow. Through an analysis of changing retail structure and foodscape health impacts on food provision, food choice and physical and economic accessibility. This i...

Regeneration-led gentrification; a comparative study of Atabak and Khani-Abad neighborhoods in Tehran

The concept of "gentrification" is becoming an important and widespread phenomenon in most of the world's cities, both developed and developing. Consequently, many people have forcibly left their places or have lived at a higher cost. Therefore this phenomenon has become one of the most controversial issues of urban studies in recent years and can be analyzed as an influential and underlying fa...

Retail-led Regeneration and Store Switching Behaviour

Retail-led regeneration of ‘food deserts’ has become accepted policy in the UK, although the impacts of such stores remain under-researched. It is assumed that residents will switch their shopping behaviour to the new store and then alter their purchasing patterns to include more healthy options. A preand post ‘intervention’ study in a deprived area and an equally deprived non-intervention area...

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 ...