Building Competitiveness and Cohesion: the Role of New Housebuilding in Central Scotland’s Cities
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This paper starts by mapping out the ways in which new private housebuilding may impinge on two of the key themes of contemporary urban policy, economic competitiveness and social cohesion. It then examines aspects of this relationship in more depth, drawing on evidence from the ESRC Cities programme Integrative Cities Study of Central Scotland. First, it considers the choice between higher density, urban/brownfield locations versus lower density suburban/greenfield locations for new housing. Secondly, it looks at the role of new building in promoting social cohesion/integration at neigbourhood level. A mixture of sources of evidence are drawn on, particularly surveys of residents of selected new housing schemes and existing neighbourhoods in central Scotland, but also linked analyses of planning and market data. The conclusions draw attention to the the significant role of new housebuilding in supporting city competitiveness and regeneration, at the same time as its rather uneven contribution to sustainability and balanced communities becomes apparent. This leads to some positive pointers for policy while recognizing the inherent conflicts between different dimensions of social cohesion.
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