Process Of Urban Revitalization Research Articles

Diversity and Inclusion as a Critical Factors in the Urban Revitalization Efforts – Community and Individuals Perspective

This article will explore the role of diversity and inclusion in the urban revitalization process, highlighting the benefits of a diverse and inclusive community for both individuals and the community as a whole. The research method used to achieve the goal and answer the research questions is a critical analysis of the literature, as well as an analysis of secondary research. The current paradigm of urban management including through revitalization seems to revolve around individuation and flexibility in combining technology with human needs. This perspective calls for policies for inclusion and diversity. By recognizing and responding to the diverse needs of residents in the revitalization process, the creation of open, tolerant, inclusive cities is achieved, which is conducive to reducing social exclusion. And by extension, it also promotes the elimination of discriminatory practices against its current and future residents.

Management of Postindustrial Heritage in Urban Revitalization Processes

The paper presents the results of original research on the use of heritage in revitalization processes. The study was conducted on selected postindustrial areas in Poland. The analysis is based on research conducted mainly with qualitative methods, including desk research, field query, participating observation, and in-depth interviews with selected stakeholders of postindustrial heritage. The purpose of the article is to indicate that cultural heritage is used in the regeneration processes of postindustrial areas. We prove that cultural heritage is not a separate category present in the revitalization process, but it is visible in spatial, social, and economic aspects of this process. To illustrate this, we provide numerous examples that we identified during research. In summary, we present the benefits of using cultural heritage in the revitalization process.

Arts and Culture in Lisbon’s Recent Revitalization : Observing Mouraria and Intendente Square through Alternative Local Initiatives as Drivers of Marginal Gentrification

“Creative cities” and “artistic neighborhoods” have become regular concepts within hegemonic narratives and practices related to centralized urban revitalization processes. Creativity is now sold as a symbol of status and the “creative city” has become a widespread trend common to contemporary cities. At the same time, artists and social movements use art and culture as an instrument of resistance, change and transformation of social relations, implementing in their practices the criticism of the neoliberal city. This paper discusses the links between (i) neoliberal culture-led revitalization strategies; (ii) artists and community groups; and (iii) gentrification. We show that in a free-market context, bottom-up artistic initiatives revalorize areas and the resulting increase in property values are appropriated by private investors, accelerating a process of gentrification.

The Shanxi Grand Theater: The “Renaissance” of Chinese Drama Land

ThispaperfocusesonTaiyuancity,asecond-tierChinesecitywithabrillianthistorythat had been gradually reduced to mediocrity. When an ambitious governor took office, he planned to carry out an urban revitalization process in which cultural facilities would become symbols of power and represent the city’s identity or define its character. The importation of western-style architecture and urban design for the performing arts offer a way out. The ‘perfect copies’ of European lifestyle, through the way of architectural, urbanism transplant, seemed to serve as a potent symbol of China authority’s ability to control and rearrange the worldwide intelligence for their citizen. The authors investigated Taiyuan and its performance spaces, examine the Shanxi Grand Theatre in terms of designs, layouts and uses, expectations, and disappointments in spatial terms both within and in relation to urban spaces, which epitomized China’s strategy on balancing the elite cultural monuments and social welfare.

Elements of Local Autonomy and New Technology in Urban Revitalization Process

The article aims to present the concept of the urban revitalization in relation with the new information technologies. The actuality of the topic relates from the importance of information tools in all processes of human activity, including the administrative and participatory one. The urban revitalization is presented as a dimension of the decisional local autonomy of public authorities of the cities/municipalities. The paper is based on the on-going activities of the bilateral Polish - Moldavian ”Revitalization Project”. The e-tools become a new dimension of the classical ”renewal” concept, transforming in this way the revitalization process in a modern one and upgrading it to a higher level. Because of the rapid development of the information society, the revitalization processes undergo changes and gains new meaning. The expectations of citizens as well as the activities of local public authorities imply new standards, especially in terms of information technologies.
  

“Savor the earth to save it!”—The pedagogy of sustainable pleasure and relational ecology in a place-based public culinary culture

ABSTRACTSustainability has become a keyword in popular discourses in the age of the celebrity chef. As such, chefs and other actors working in the visible spaces and venues of a shared US public culinary culture have become powerful spokespersons for sustainable food production, consumption, and localization. Unlike catastrophist discourses of environmentalisms' of the past, however, this new discourse is often framed in terms of a politics of pleasure that redefines deliberate and considered hedonism as a kind of transformative eco-culinary engagement. In self-assigned missionary roles, chefs and other prepared food producers are often engaging in a very deliberate pedagogical project that link sensuality and sustainability. Likewise, and equally important to these efforts, is the centrality of regard—that is, attempts among chefs to re-embed exchange relations between producers and consumers, often serving as the critical interlocutors in such reassertions. This article is an exploration of how such processes have played out in the public culinary context of Knoxville, Tennessee and vicinity. As a mid-size city in the heart of southern Appalachia's Ridge and Valley sub-region, Knoxville is undergoing a familiar process of urban revitalization that includes a robust food service sector. Amid shifting demographics and media flows bringing more cosmopolitan influences to the region, a range of actors have grounded these in a regionally specific food and farming heritage in order to reconnect consumers and producers and cultivate a more sustainable and mutualistic local food system.

Rewitalizacja miast z perspektywy ekonomicznej. Refleksje teoretyczne i ich konsekwencje dla praktyki planowania przedsięwzięć rewitalizacyjnych

Perspektywa ekonomiczna w problematyce projektowania miast i zarządzania nimi ma już niemal dwusetletnią tradycję. Okres ten pozwolił na wypracowanie szeregu tez, założeń i perspektyw analitycznych, pozwalających na łączenie ich z innymi punktami widzenia na zagadnienia rozwoju miast. Uwzględnienie tej perspektywy pozostaje szczególnie ważne w kontekście współczesnych przedsięwzięć rewitalizacji miast, które cechuje daleko idąca różnorodność użytkowników i struktur własnościowych. W niniejszym artykule zidentyfikowano kluczowe wyzwania dla osób projektujących zmiany przestrzeni miast z perspektywy ekonomicznej dla ich ponownego ożywienia. Istotna jest w tym przypadku konieczność identyfikacji potrzeb użytkowników przestrzeni jako punkt wyjścia do podejmowanych działań, umiejętność dotarcia do odpowiednich grup docelowych i prowadzenia dialogu z nimi oraz identyfikacja struktury funkcjonalnej i własnościowej jako warunków koniecznych dla zapewnienia skuteczności i efektywności działań rewitalizacyjnych. W szerszym ujęciu wskazano na konieczność wkomponowania rewitalizacji w ogólny kontekst gospodarki miasta, odwołujący się do wzmacniania jego bazy ekonomicznej oraz poszukiwania efektywnych źródeł finansowania rozwoju.

Change and Memory on the Fresno Fulton Mall

Revitalization of the Fresno, CA Fulton Mall serves as an anthropological case study centering around a discussion of changing urban forms. The creation and maintenance of community as it pertains to open urban space is central to my argument that context and placemaking matter when confronting urban change at the street level, querying the role public space plays in 21st Century urban areas. I ask what do preservation efforts really seek to save in a rapidly changing region like California's greater Central Valley? What do such preservation efforts say about the role of citizens in their community at the local level and how their participation in the urban revitalization process include hidden transcripts (Scott, 1990) of cultural meaning that reinforce and counter the discourse of a dominant local planning regime? Through ethnographic research and an intimate and empirically-grounded understanding of place, I showcase the different negotiations of space and self that community groups and local government entities develop, even as they seek to both revitalize and preserve the character of the Fulton Mall through political dialogue and community mobilization.

Touring the Hidden City: Walking Tour Guides in Deindustrializing Genoa

AbstractDrawing on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa, a northern Italian city whose deindustrialization process began in the early 1970s, this paper explores how the city's high levels of intellectual unemployment have given rise to the profession of walking tour guides. These are highly educated women, and more rarely men, who, working independently of the financial and political powers that usually drive urban revitalization processes, utilize their cultural capital and talents to spin itinerant tales of concealment and discovery around the master narrative of Genoa's decline and its tourist potential. Through an analysis of their professional histories and experiences as well as the ways they present the city, I argue that the guides comprise a sui generis “creative class” (Florida 2012) that helps transform Genoa into a city worth visiting. In their attempt to boost cultural tourism, tour guides inhabit a liminal space from where they vie for legitimacy, build professional personas that both challenge and reinforce gender norms, and straddle contested lines between high and popular culture, and between amateurism and professionalism. I contend that, compared with Richard Florida's (2012) upwardly mobile “talents,” Genoa's walking tour guides form a residual creative class that emerges out of necessity and struggles to survive by creatively exploiting the “hiddenness” of a densely layered cityscape.

Leaderships in Urban Contexts of Diversity and Innovation: The Porto Maravilha Case

This article investigates the role and ways of action of leaderships in urban contexts characterized by urban revitalization processes (RJ/Brazil). Adopting as its theoretical basis the bibliographical review of the literature on leadership and public area requalification processes, as well as research conducted by Jacobs (2011) on diversity and innovation, the present research may be characterized as qualitative in nature (case study). Results indicate that the Porto Maravilha project has transposed business concepts to public administration. Today, the keynote lies in the attraction of new enterprises and in the construction of urban revitalization projects for the city's makeover. With regard to the leadership, although public leadership has apparently adopted management instruments for decentralizing management and for public participation, these measures were not enough to achieve an effectively shared leadership that would reflect the multiple interests of different actors (as the theory of relational leadership presupposes). Thus, a set of contradictions and dilemmas for the leaders is apparent, among them: how to build an effectively-shared leadership, as every urban transformation project depends on the negotiation and complex interaction between different social actors?

Museus e revitalização urbana: o Museu de Artes e Ofícios e a Praça da Estação em Belo Horizonte

Uma das condições principais em que se observa o nascimento de novos espaços museológicos são os museus implantados durante os chamados processos de revitalização urbana. Se o que se pretende com essas iniciativas é dar “nova vida” a espaços antes considerados “degradados”, cabe se perguntar qual o papel que essas instituições têm a desempenhar nesses processos. Observando que no Brasil, no final do século XX e início do atual, se desenvolveram diversas propostas e projetos de requalificação urbana, selecionaram-se, como alvo da presente reflexão, o processo de implantação do Museu de Artes e Ofícios (MAO) e sua correlação com os processos de revitalização urbana de parte da região central da cidade de Belo Horizonte.

William Worthy’s Concept of “Institutional Rape” Revisited

This article examines the role of anchor institutions in the urban revitalization process. We use case study analysis to understand how concerns about residential displacement are addressed by anchor institutions in the urban planning process. This analysis is designed to build upon William Worthy’s critique of anchor-based development during the 1960s and 1970s. Our analysis examines the degree to which his concept of “institutional rape” applies to contemporary urban revitalization efforts. The article focuses on university and medical campus expansion in Buffalo, NY. We describe how the planned expansion of the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus has raised concerns about the displacement of residents living in a neighboring subsidized housing development. We conclude that despite incremental improvements in the planning process designed to facilitate coordination between anchor institutions and grassroots interests, resident empowerment has not been fully realized. Instead, the planning process continues to be dominated by institutional interests with limited community input. Consequently, residents worked through grassroots organizations, local government, and the media to resist anchor-based development. In light of these findings, we recommend that the role of residents in the planning process for neighborhood revitalization become more institutionalized through the negotiation of community benefit agreements and other linkages.

Balancing urban revitalization, tourism, and development issues in times of crisis: Kawagoe's historical district as a self-sustaining and resilient community

Using the example of the urban revitalization process of Kawagoe’s historical city center and district around chibangai Street, this paper examines the impact of different tourism development plans on the urban environment, community structure, and local economy of the neighborhood. Expanding on assumptions around the terms heritage, tourism, and tradition, the paper discusses potentials and practices of a distinctive revitalization and tourism approach that can offer new possibilities but also the chance of resistance. This will be done by critically evaluating Kawagoe’s community and tourism development plan and resenting personal trajectories drawing on ethnographic data collected before and after the Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011. The results show that synergies which derive from such incidents could be used to develop a better understanding of the impact of tourism development, and of how to rebound from times of crisis. The case of Kawagoe illustrates how the preservation of a traditional townscape can serve as one step toward the development of a sustainable, self-reliant, and resilient community when relying on a distinctive, place-based tourism approach.

Social Innovation and the Process of Urban Revitalization of the Metropolitan Area of Bilbao

Social Innovation and the Process of Urban Revitalization of the Metropolitan Area of Bilbao

Revitalização de centros urbanos no Brasil: uma análise comparativa das experiências de Vitória, Fortaleza e São Luís

The study of urban revitalization processes has taken pride of place in the studies of contemporary urban dynamics, given their frequency and broad scope. In the last few decades, they have stood out, among a variety of revitalization processes, for their ability to incorporate “culture” as a differentiating content. In this article, I evaluate the part the heritage has played in the latest attempts at revitalizing the historical areas of Vitoria (ES), Fortaleza (CE) and Sao Luis (MA), placing special emphasis on the role of the public power to enforce successful revitalization policies. In my opinion, the revitalization processes included in this paper point to innovative articulations among the players involved in them, once they comprise urban historical complexes with items of different values and are subject to local governments more or less committed to the revitalization of urban centers

Urban design education as integral to ‘real-time’ urban revitalization processes: Salvokop, Pretoria

The article outlines an attempt at teaching urban design by integrating urban revitalisation processes. Salvokop, an historical but derelict railway precinct in the inner city of Pretoria, provides the site for a long-term, inter-disciplinary laboratory in which a real urban precinct revitalisation project is used as a vehicle for teaching and practical studio work. The site is studied from a variety of focal areas within the Department of Architecture. The project provides a mechanism for feedback among practitioners, the local council and the academic environment. Owing to its history as a century old, urban railway town that was part of a wider, ideologically driven socio-economic process, Salvokop has the potential for development. Its proximity to major transport facilities, its growing status as a place of refuge for newcomers and its intimate relation to the important Freedom Park heritage site make it particularly suitable for a multifaceted inquiry into issues such as urban sustainability, inner city housing, appropriate technology, heritage conservation and urban renewal, as a vehicle for directing teaching in a transforming, developing environment.

Integration of future users' evaluations into the process of urban revitalization

The following paper presents a method for evaluation of the suitability of urban residential areas for different groups of future residents, considering worldwide tides of migration and problems encountered during the process of urban revitalization. This method can be applied: (1) as a quick and reliable tool for reaching, establishing, and examining decisions regarding allocation of land in general and particularly for residence; (2) as a means to evaluate an area's suitability for residence at the beginning of the planning process; (3) as a method for public participation in the planning process; (4) as a way of examining the significance of certain attributes of urban residence areas for different groups of future users. The topic of this research is derived from a real and contemporary problem: the problem of housing new immigrants and revitalization of the center of the city of Haifa, Israel. The application of the method consisted of a pilot study, which was carried out to examine attitudes among young and mobile populations toward deteriorating residential areas in the center of Haifa and its surroundings. The findings of the pilot study have not yet been corroborated by any additional research studies. This study has resulted in a physical map that describes the suitability of the examined environments for residence based on evaluation/preferences of the designated users. The map should allow planners to widen their basis for decision making beyond their personal knowledge and norms of the profession.