What is wrong with urban regeneration practices? Towards a Foucauldian analysis of urban regeneration documents.

Purpose - As a national movement, urban regeneration is the future of Turkish residential real estate market. In this paper, the models that let housing sector to make sustainable investments to urban regeneration are examined. In this regard, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the structural models of urban regeneration projects take place in emerging markets from the perspective of Turkish examples. It estimates various business and financial models according to varying dynamics of TurkeyA•s recent urban regeneration projects. The paper demonstrates decision making approaches to utilize models that will fit better under changing circumstances.Design/methodology/approach - The paper reviews the differences of urban regeneration projects in developed and emerging markets. It explores the driving forces behind urban regeneration, legal infrastructure, and practices in Turkey specifically. It draws upon recent urban regeneration examples in Turkey. The paper analyses the existing models and proposes methods to choose the proper models that match with the varying dynamics.Findings - Urban regeneration needs are different for developed and emerging markets and even for each emerging markets. There is no one-fits-all model in urban regeneration projects. Various dynamics play roles in adoption of proper business and financing model in regeneration projects. Decision making process for the model that fits the project usually lacks systematic analysis. However, urban regeneration needs in emerging markets display similar characteristic as they stem from the same dynamics. Hence urban regeneration practices and models can be adapted to the projects of other emerging markets. In planning stage of urban regeneration projects while methods, resources and financing tools are being planned and allocated, a checklist and/or a flowchart consist of some critical questions addressing the proper business models can be used as decision making tools/approaches.Research limitations/implications - This paper is essentially exploratory and raises a number of questions for further investigation. There is scope to extend the research to examine other business development models and propose advanced decision making approaches addressing complicated factors.Originality/value - This is the first paper to examine business models in urban regeneration projects and accordingly propose decision making approaches for adopting the suitable model to follow.

Sustainability of urban regeneration in Turkey: Assessing the performance of the North Ankara Urban Regeneration Project

There has been a growing interest throughout Europe in the issue of urban regeneration. Since the 1990s, the European Union has played an increasingly important role in influencing member states' urban policy and regeneration practice, through the implementation of the Urban Pilot Projects, the URBAN Community Initiative and the URBACT network. The Urban Acquis, seen as the commonly-approved EU URBAN methodology, supports an integrated approach to regeneration, involving physical, economic, social and environmental initiatives, integrating local residents into inclusive governance and decision-making processes. While this integrated approach was not new in some member states, such as the UK, France and the Netherlands when it was introduced in the 1990s, it has had a profound impact in other EU15 countries, particularly in the southern member states such as Spain, where there had been little tradition of integrated urban regeneration initiatives. This process of 'Europeanization' can also been witnessed in some new member states such as Hungary, which has adopted the EU's approach to integrated urban development planning. The influence of the EU methodology is also set to be extended, given the extensive participation in the URBACT networking program, and its concomitant impact on urban regeneration policy and practice in the future.

As suburban expansion declines, cities have become essential economic, cultural and social hubs of global connectivity. This book is about urban revitalization across North America, in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, New York and Seattle. Infrastructure projects including the High Line and Big Dig are explored alongside urban neighborhood creation and regeneration projects such as Hunters Point in San Francisco and Regent Park in Toronto. Today, these urban regeneration projects have evolved in the context of unprecedented neoliberal public policy and soaring real estate prices. Consequently, they make a complex contribution to urban inequality and poverty trends in many of these cities, including the suburbanization of immigrant settlement and rising inequality. (Re)Generating Inclusive Cities wrestles with challenging but important questions of urban planning, including who benefits and who loses with these urban regeneration schemes, and what policy tools can be used to mitigate harm? We propose a new way forward for understanding and promoting better urban design practices in order to build more socially just and inclusive cities and to ultimately improve the quality of urban life for all.

Urban regeneration is a global long time practice. While many cities in the world have gone ahead to imbibe emerging concepts in urban regeneration with resounding successes, most urban regeneration programmes in Nigeria cannot be said to be in line with global best practices. In Nigeria, Urban regeneration programmes are characterized with challenges such as lack of resettlement plan, increased poverty, low level of awareness, insufficient urban built environment professionals, differences in stakeholders’ interest and lack of infrastructural database (Shuaeeb, 2011). It is within this analytical context that this paper is conceived. This paper was based on the identification of the concepts of innovation hubs (i-hubs) and responsible property investment (RPI) as the global best practice in urban regeneration. It also delves into literatures and studies on urban regeneration practices in Nigeria to ascertain its level to what is obtainable around the world. The basic finding reveals the challenges in the existing urban regeneration practices in the country and suggests the need for the integration of science, technology, engineering, culture, design, media and arts as driving forces for effective urban regeneration practices and policy formulation in Nigeria. Finally, the paper concludes by recommending that Estate Surveyors and Valuers should be in the driver’s seat in the simplementation of iHub urban regeneration and RPI that will lead to achievement of attractive, harmonious and aesthetically pleasing environment that would guarantee environmental sustainability for the present and future generations.

Elements of culture and cultural policy have now become firmly integrated within urban design and regeneration practice. Culture is recognised as a driver of economic renewal and many cities have utilised culture as an additional means of achieving regeneration outcomes through the application of designated cultural quarters. This study provides a critical evaluation of the regeneration and development of Cathedral Quarter Belfast, exploring the integration of cultural and economic strategies to encourage greater cultural provision and economic development as well as examining the role of culture as a catalyst in the regeneration process. It does so by utilising a mixed methodology incorporating qualitative key informant interviews and a quantitative survey of visitors to the quarter. This research examines and challenges existing theories in relation to culture-led regeneration making a valuable contribution to the literature on the application of cultural quarters and identifies areas for further investigation.

ABSTRACTAfter many years of efforts aimed at reaching a cohesive and inclusive socio-economic development, Poland keeps witnessing some significant disparities in the distribution of wealth. Moreover, these disparities intensified in the course of the post-socialist transition and they have not been diminished by the regional policy of the EU. In this light, urban regeneration appears as an important, emerging sphere of public intervention intended to support the less developed regions. The objective of this study is twofold: first, to characterize the place of urban regeneration in the Polish strategic planning system, and second, to carry out an in-depth analysis of planning strategies and practices of urban regeneration at the regional level and conclude with recommendations for planning. The latter is achieved by examining the Polish experience with urban regeneration practices in the 1999–2015 period using Wielkopolska region as a case study. In order to reach this objective: (a) all strategic documents related to urban regeneration have been collected and analysed, (b) a survey has been conducted in 100 cities and towns of the region and finally (c) 50 interviews have been carried out with various stakeholders involved in the urban regeneration process. The article concludes with recommendations for planning and further urban regeneration projects aiming to alleviate the development disparities between core and non-core regions.

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

A study on the laws, systems and development cases of urban regeneration in Japan, which are prior to urban regeneration and urban development, foresaw the development measures of urban residential regeneration projects in Korea. To this end, Japan’s Special Act on Urban Regeneration was compared with Korea’s Urban Regeneration Act, which was enacted in 2013. In particular, the Private Urban Regeneration Project, which is being embodied in Japan’s Special Act on Urban Regeneration, proposed the need to revise the Urban Regeneration Act as it did not specify support and deregulation in Korea In order to find out the need for a private-centered urban development project, Japan’s representative Odaiba, Rock Peak Hills, and Evisgarden Place development projects were analyzed. As a measure to revitalize urban housing regeneration projects in Korea, firstly, it was suggested that private participation for private capital and technology inducement is needed, secondly, urban-based and central-town urban regeneration projects linked to regional economy and job creation should be promoted, and third, that competitiveness should be secured through complex urban housing regeneration projects.The purpose of this study is to analyze the development of the Urban Regeneration Act and the Urban Regeneration Act in Japan.

Cities are trying to adapt to the rapidly changing global trends by regenerating themselves. Approaches and practices of this regeneration are different in several countries. In big Turkish cities, particularly in the past decade, urban regeneration practices, processes and consequences have sparked several debates. The ?new? gained or converted spaces in the city are also significant in terms of their impacts on urban identity. In this context, this study aims to identify the impacts of urban regeneration, which occurred in historical city centres, on urban identity in the case of Turkey. The study determines general framework of urban regeneration and then defines a conceptual framework of urban identity. It focuses on urban regeneration projects in the case of Turkey. Then, the topic is explored through two case studies which are selected from Turkey, Istanbul and Bursa. The findings of the study indicate that there are several problematic aspects of urban regeneration. The findings also show that urban identity was ignored in urban regeneration projects, which caused significant breaks in the context of physical, cultural, historical and semantic continuity.

Population growth in our country, which started in the 1950s and increased due to migration from the village to the city, caused irregular construction, reduction of green areas and pollution. Urban regeneration practice (which can bedefined as rehabilitation of some parts of the city, reuse of abandoned areas, improvement of damaged urban areas and interventions to increase the quality of social and cultural life) is an important tool that can be used to create sustainable cities. In this study, It is aimed to determine the benefit of the urban regeneration project and thus to determine whether the urban regeneration project to be implemented contributes to sustainable urbanization in example of “The urban renovation project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality located in Uzundere Neighborhood of Karabaglar” by remote sensing methods and spatial analysis of zoning plan layouts, measuring land use decisions, the amount of green areas per capita, the change in , CO₂ gas retention.

At a time of public sector retrenchment in urban regeneration it has become increasingly important to understand how planners can help create better places. Recent studies suggest that planners must behave as market actors by strategically deploying planning tools to influence market behaviour. In this context, this paper examines how local planning authorities use a variety of policy instruments to influence urban projects and turn planning strategies into action. To understand how planning tools can be used to achieve successful results in urban regeneration practice, the paper presents a cross-comparison of mixed-use city centre regeneration projects in Bristol and Liverpool.