Urban Renewal, Community and Participation

Offers critical discussion of how urban renewal policies impact upon communities, using international case studies
Stimulates upper lever undergraduates and masters students with policy and planning analysis, using a range of theoretical approaches and concepts
Combines multiple perspectives in one volume, highlighting the value of community participation and holistic understandings of urban renewal

Contenu
Foreword.- Introduction.- Chapter 1 Gentrification and displacement.- Chapter 2 London's Railway Neighbourhoods.- Chapter 3 Community perceptions of Urban Regeneration.- Chapter 4 Market modernization and the sense of place lost in transformation.- Chapter 5 New East Manchester? Historicizing health, wellness, and the working class body to resist gentrification.- Chapter 6 Developing A Community Land Trust for The Right To The City.- Chapter 7 Participatory Citymaking.- Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods in Hong Kong.- Chapter 9 Citizen Participation and Public Funding in Ohio.- Chapter 10 Community led Social Housing Regeneration.- Chapter 11 The need for holistic community development in sites of neighbourhood change.- Chapter 12 How NGO's help Haitians find a Sense of Community.- Chapter 13 Colonial Heritage Conservation in Contemporary Qindao, China (Xiaolin Zang).- Chapter 14 Urban Labs as a new form of Participation and Governance.- Conclusion and Directions for Future Research.