Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change

ISBN-13: 9780367877927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

Nicholas Wise; Julie Clark

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This book tells the story of how urban transformation impacts on people’s lives and everyday interactions—to question where and to whom benefit accrues from these changes. Urban Transformations offers insight into both risk and reward as local communities and public authorities creatively address the challenge of building vital and sustai

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About the Authors

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Geographies of renewal and creative change: Assessing urban transformations

Nicholas Wise & Julie Clark

1. Writing the past into the fabric of the present: Urban regeneration in Glasgow’s East End







Julie Clark & Rebecca Madgin









2. Urban regeneration In Motion: The High Line as a traveling urban imaginary







Ian Riekes Trivers









3. Urban revitalization in a neoliberal key: Brownfield redevelopment in Michigan







Mark D. Bjelland & Ian Noyes









4. The New Main Street: Planning, politics and change in downtown Kent, Ohio







Jennifer Mapes









5. Beyond rail: Amenity Driven High Density Development for polycentric cities







Jennifer L. Kitson, Stephen T. Buckman & David C. Folch









6. Creating third places: Ethnic retailing and place-making in metropolitan Toronto







Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang









7. Place-making and place-breaking on the banks of the Clyde







Georgiana Varna









8. Renewal of Tehran's deteriorated neighbourhoods: Opportunities for identity building and meaning making?







Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani









9. When community and condos collide: The uneven geographies of housing wealth in mixed-income neighbourhood transformation







Charles Barlow









10. Examining the transformation of Regent Park, Toronto: Prioritizing hard and soft infrastructure







Shauna Brail, Katerina Mizrokhi & Sonia Ralston









11. Theorising neighbourhood inequality: The things we do with theory, the things it does to us







Amie Thurber









12. Developing a research agenda to assess local social impacts of sport

O autorze

Nicholas Wise is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Community at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Julie Clark is an urban policy specialist, lecturing in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.