Urban Regeneration in the UK.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- SECTION I - THE CONTEXT FOR URBAN REGENERATION -- Chapter 1: Introduction: the decline and rise of UK cities -- Chapter aims -- Aims and structure of the textbook -- Defining urban regeneration and urban policy -- The urban regeneration agenda in the UK -- Industrialisation, urbanisation and municipal intervention -- Suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and the decline of the inner city -- Post-war urban reconstruction projects -- Late-twentieth-century de-industrialisation -- Social exclusion and social polarisation in cities -- The rise of the post-modern city and new urban spaces -- Urban economic and social challenges facing twenty-first century cities -- Urban regeneration: significant texts -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on urban regeneration and urban policy -- Key websites on urban regeneration and urban policy -- SECTION II - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT URBAN REGENERATION POLICY -- Chapter 2: The early years of regeneration: physical regeneration (1945-1968) and social and community welfare (1968-1979) -- Chapter aims -- Analysing urban policy periods -- Urban policy as 'experimentation' -- Urban problems at the end of the Second World War -- The philosophies behind urban policy between 1945 and 1979 -- Physical regeneration: 1945-1968 -- Social and community welfare: 1968-1979 -- The 1977 Urban White Paper - 'A policy for the Inner Cities' -- Critiquing the early years of regeneration -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on the early years of regeneration -- Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial regeneration (1980s) -- Chapter aims -- The philosophies of entrepreneurial regeneration in the 1980s -- The rolling back of the state and the rise of market-led urban regeneration -- Public-private partnerships.

Property-led regeneration -- 1980s Urban Policies -- Enterprise zones -- Urban development corporations -- The legacy of urban entrepreneurialism: a critique -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on entrepreneurial regeneration (1980s) -- Chapter 4: Competition and urban policy (1991-1997) -- Chapter aims -- The context and philosophy of regeneration (1991-1997): partnership, competition and sustainability -- City challenge -- Single Regeneration Budget -- Other competitive bidding urban policies (1991-1997) -- Criticisms of competition in urban policy -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on competition and urban policy (1991-1997) -- Key website on competition and urban policy (1991-1997) -- Chapter 5: Urban renaissance and neighbourhood renewal (1997-2010) -- Chapter aims -- New labour, new urban policy? The philosophy of urban regeneration (1997-2010) -- Urban renaissance -- Neighbourhood renewal -- Community regeneration policy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under New Labour -- Evaluating urban renaissance and neighbourhood renewal -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on urban renaissance and neighbourhood renewal (1997-2010) -- Chapter 6: Regeneration in the age of austerity (2010s) -- Chapter aims -- Austerity urbanism: Coalition and Conservative governments (2010s ) -- Urban regeneration in the 2010s : back to the 1980s? -- Economic growth and localism policies -- Critique of regeneration in the age of austerity -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on regeneration in the age of austerity (2010s) -- Key websites on regeneration in the age of austerity (2010s) -- SECTION III - TRANSFORMING CITIES: CITY-LEVEL RESPONSES TO URBAN CHANGE -- Chapter 7: Urban competitiveness -- Chapter aims -- Competitiveness and place competition within urban regeneration -- Drivers behind place competition.

Competitive cities in the UK -- Arenas of competition: consumption and production -- Competitive advantage and the creative class -- Place rebranding, marketing and urban entrepreneurialism -- Critiquing urban competitiveness -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on urban competitiveness -- Key websites on urban competitiveness -- Chapter 8: New forms of urban governance -- Chapter aims -- Urban regeneration and urban governance -- From Fordism to post-Fordism and the city -- The changing role of the state in urban regeneration -- The shift from local government to local governance -- From managerialism to entrepreneurialism -- Inter-city collaborative networks -- The neighbourhood, regional, sub-regional and city-region levels of governance -- New forms of urban governance: a critique -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on new forms of urban governance -- Key websites on new forms of urban governance -- Chapter 9: Community and regeneration -- Chapter aims -- Community in public policy: a historical and theoretical perspective (1960s-2010s) -- The ideology of community and its importance to urban regeneration -- The benefits and challenges of community involvement in urban regeneration -- Measures to promote the social economy -- Critiquing community involvement in urban regeneration -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on community and regeneration -- Key websites on community and regeneration -- Chapter 10: Urban regeneration and sustainability -- Chapter aims -- Cities, sustainability and regeneration -- Ecological footprints and cities -- Defining sustainability and sustainable cities -- Sustainable cities and communities -- Linking urban regeneration and sustainability -- The compact versus dispersed city debate -- Sustainable urban design, housing and regeneration.

Case study: BedZED - environmental architecture, sustainable living and urban regeneration -- Eco-towns, eco-cities and sustainable urban regeneration -- Brownfield site regeneration -- Urban green spaces and regeneration -- Urban regeneration and sustainability: reconciling economic regeneration and environmental protection -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on urban regeneration and sustainability -- Key websites on urban regeneration and sustainability -- Chapter 11: Retail-led regeneration -- Chapter aims -- City centre retail change and regeneration: in-town versus out-of -town -- Retail-led regeneration -- Case study: superstore development and regeneration in the town centre of Llanelli, South Wales -- Mega-retail-led regeneration -- Town and city centre management -- Business Improvement Districts -- Retail-led regeneration: critical issues -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on retailled regeneration -- Key websites on retailled regeneration -- Chapter 12: Housing-led regeneration and gentrification -- Chapter aims -- Urban regeneration and housing development -- Adaptation and reuse of buildings -- The gentrification debate -- City centre housing regeneration and gentrification -- Urban regeneration and the 'urban idyll' -- Studentification and cities -- Gated communities and securitisation -- Housing-led regeneration: critical issues -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on housing-led regeneration and gentrification -- Key websites on housingled regeneration and gentrification -- Chapter 13: Culture and regeneration -- Chapter aims -- Culture and the city: from cultural consumption to cultural production -- The cultural city -- Cultural quarters in cities -- Case study: Dublin's Temple Bar -- Urban events, festivals and carnivals -- Promoting the evening and night-time economy.

Urban tourism and urban heritage -- Sport and the entrepreneurial city -- Creativity, creative industries and the creative city -- Selling the city of culture and spectacle -- Cultural regeneration: critical issues -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on culture and regeneration -- Key website on culture and regeneration -- Chapter 14: Regenerating suburban and exurban areas of cities -- Chapter aims -- Urban spatial models and changing suburbs -- Regenerating suburban and exurban areas: problems and responses -- Regenerating suburbia: policy implications and critical issues -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on regenerating suburban and exurban areas of cities -- Key website on regenerating suburban and exurban areas of cities -- SECTION IV - CONCLUSION -- Chapter 15: Urban regeneration: Learning from the past, lessons for the future -- Chapter aims -- Urban regeneration and changing cities -- Central government urban regeneration policy: a critique -- Transforming cities: an assessment of thematic approaches to regeneration -- Future directions for urban regeneration in the UK: key issues and debates into the 2020s -- Summary -- Study questions -- Key readings on urban regeneration: learning from the past, lessons for the future -- Key websites on urban regeneration: learning from the past, lessons for the future -- References -- Index.

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary regeneration agenda in context.

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