Urban Regeneration in Australia: Policies, Processes and Projects of Contemporary Urban Change

ISBN-13: 9781472471635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 380 str.

Kristian Ruming

Opis

Drawing together leading urban academics, this book provides the first detailed and cohesive exploration of contemporary urban regeneration in Australian cities. It explores the multiple aspects and processes of regeneration, including planning policy (strategic and regulatory), development financing, sustainability, remediation and transport. The book puts forward a unique and innovative 'scaled' analysis of urban regeneration, which positions urban regeneration as more than just large-scale redevelopment projects. It examines the processes of urban change which occur outside the centre of the city, which contribute to regenerating the city. By way of illustrating large-scale regeneration, the book sets out in detail a range of urban regeneration projects from across Australian cities. These projects often represent those 'flagship' developments mobilized in urban policy to represent positive urban change, often used as examples of the global status of the cities themselves. Beyond these large-scale, iconic and global regeneration projects, Australian cities are regenerating in multiple other ways and locations, such as middle- and outer-ring redevelopment processes and this book analyses these processes. Suburban change is positioned as a vital form of regeneration, where both individual houses and whole social housing suburbs are knocked down to facilitate redevelopment. Australian regeneration is shown to be both large-scale global projects and the redevelopment of the family home in the suburbs. The book moves beyond the planning and economic considerations of the regeneration process to describe the social and cultural aspects of the regeneration. In doing so, it focuses on the management of higher density environments, culture as a trigger for regeneration and community opposition to the regeneration process.

O autorze

Kristian Ruming is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Australia. His main research interests include urban regeneration and renewal, affordable and social-housing provision, urban governance, strategic planning, and planning system reform. Before joining Macquarie University, he was a research fellow at the City Future Research Centre, University of  New South Wales, Australia.