Abstract
This paper provides a literature review on planning tools and policies available for urban transformation in cities from the Global South – ‘other stories’ – with common economic contexts that suited neoliberal regeneration strategies. It calls for a perspective on comparative urbanism since it is essential to look for case studies focused outside the Anglophone core in order to contribute for a postcolonial agenda. The method used for case studies choices was based on scientific platforms research using relevant keywords to produce a critical review. The results point out that the urban renewal processes analyzed have generated similar outcomes on urban and social realms such as displacement, social inequalities, deprivation of rights and physical changes of the urban environment as they are part of city’s reclaim for business, middle-class and market forces based on state-led and policy-driven approaches.
Highlights
This literature review provides a contribution to decenter the discussion on urban planning tools and policies for regeneration strategies from a traditional Anglophone core
The market-oriented approach for planning policies in these cities represent the project of political parties that sets conditions benefiting private sectors such as in construction and real estate segments
As exposed on this paper, the main urban planning tools used to assure the hegemonic forces of capital to spatially fix in the city are incentives such as flexible land use and zoning plans that meets the criteria set by construction and real estate sector to implement new developments for the city regeneration in areas with emerging rent gap or with higher rates of informal settlements, enabling gentrification
Summary
This literature review provides a contribution to decenter the discussion on urban planning tools and policies for regeneration strategies from a traditional Anglophone core. It is addressed strategies for urban renewal in distressed urban areas and it indicates the main tools and policies developed by the state in order to foster urban transformation through land redevelopment projects. It discusses the role that central or local government play when laying conditions, foreseeing and creating opportunities for urban renewal to take place and the relations between state and the (real estate) market on the neoliberal politics. This paper provides a review of experiences in different cities to compare the neoliberal policies
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