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Hugo Priemus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The path to successful Urban Renewal: Current policy debates in the Netherlands
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2004Co-Authors: Hugo PriemusAbstract:In Dutch Urban Renewal, we observe an implementation gap between dreaming and doing. Dutch national government recently proposed to focus Urban Renewal on more than 50 priority areas in the cities and to reduce Urban Renewal subsidies. It is not very likely that this policy will accelerate Urban Renewal. This contribution suggests a different approach: the formulation of an Urban district vision shared by the sustainable stakeholders in those districts. If they can come to an agreement, they deserve housing association finance and public Urban Renewal support. By targeting the plans primarily on the social climbers in the Urban districts involved, the city can keep their buying power within the city. Combining physical, social, economic and safety agendas and adopting a multi-functional orientation would seem to be a successful strategy.
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Housing and New Urban Renewal: Current Policies in the Netherlands
European Journal of Housing Policy, 2004Co-Authors: Hugo PriemusAbstract:Recently, the Netherlands has been pursuing a new policy of Urban Renewal. Old Urban Renewal concentrated on pre-war Urban districts and had a technical orientation. The predominant shift in tenure was from commercial to social rented housing. New Urban Renewal focuses on post-war Urban districts and tries to solve the mismatch between a differentiated demand for housing and a one-sided supply. The shift in tenure is now mainly from social rented housing to owner-occupied housing. The physical agenda is combined with social, economic and safety issues.This paper presents an overview of the transition from old to new Urban Renewal. We shall begin with a few observations and then present some current dilemmas. We shall comment on the recent report by the Dutch VROM Council‘Acceleration and Deceleration in Urban Renewal’and offer some recommendations for successful Urban Renewal. These recommendations are geared to the current situation in the Netherlands, but they may also be relevant for other countries in...
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Urban Renewal policy in a European perspective
Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 1993Co-Authors: Hugo Priemus, Gerard MetselaarAbstract:The Netherlands' Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning, and Environment recently conducted a comprehensive evaluation of its Urban Renewal policy. That project is known as 'Belstato', an acronym for the Dutch equivalent of 'Policy for Urban Renewal in the Future'. Starting in the Spring of 1989, the task force was finished in 1991. They then made proposals for Urban Renewal policy that the central government could deploy during the rest of the decade. Part of the brief given by the Housing Ministry was to look beyond the country's borders; thus, Belstato also gathered information on how other European countries give shape to their (national) Urban Renewal policy. Subsequently, the Ministry commissioned OTB Research Institute for Policy Sciences and Technology to make an international comparison of Urban Renewal policy. Given the constraints of a low budget and little time, OTB conducted a preliminary investigation that was limited in scope. The investigation is based on three sources: a questionnaire answered by the sister ministries in ten European countries; an extensive document analysis in six of these countries; and discussions with foreign experts. The document analysis initially involved Belgium, West Germany2, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, and Sweden. The Netherlands was used as a basis for comparison. The questionnaire was sent to the above countries, as well as to the relevant ministries in Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Austria. This contribution uses the findings reported in Priemus and Metselaar (1992) to construct an overview of international Urban Renewal policy. Because of gaps in the empirical material, we can give no more than an impressionistic sketch of this complex field. The comparison presented here is thus broader than it is deep: an exercise in stock-taking rather than an in-depth analysis. At the beginning of 1991, the ministries in the selected countries were sent a questionnaire. In addition to their responses, a collection of publications on Urban Renewal policy in each country provided data for the analysis. The
Paul Watt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal
2017Co-Authors: Paul WattAbstract:Contemporary Urban Renewal is the subject of intense academic and policy debate regarding whether it promotes social mixing and spatial justice, or instead enhances neoliberal privatization and state-led gentrification. This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary Urban Renewal in relation to social rental housing.
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Social housing and Urban Renewal: conclusion
Social Housing and Urban Renewal, 2017Co-Authors: Peer Smets, Paul WattAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary Urban Renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century Urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier Urban Renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new Urban Renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of Urban Renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical Urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary Urban Renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal Urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of Urban Renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western Urban heartlands of social housing to consider how Renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective - Social housing and Urban Renewal: A cross-national perspective
2017Co-Authors: Paul Watt, Peer SmetsAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary Urban Renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century Urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier Urban Renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new Urban Renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of Urban Renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical Urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary Urban Renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal Urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of Urban Renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western Urban heartlands of social housing to consider how Renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal: An Introduction
Social Housing and Urban Renewal, 2017Co-Authors: Paul WattAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary Urban Renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century Urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier Urban Renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new Urban Renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of Urban Renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical Urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary Urban Renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal Urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of Urban Renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western Urban heartlands of social housing to consider how Renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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social housing and Urban Renewal a cross national perspective
2017Co-Authors: Paul Watt, P G S M SmetsAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary Urban Renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century Urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier Urban Renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new Urban Renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of Urban Renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical Urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary Urban Renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal Urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of Urban Renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western Urban heartlands of social housing to consider how Renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
Wang Zhen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Study on Plot Ratio of Urban Renewal Project
Urban Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Wang ZhenAbstract:With the accelerated development of Urbanization process in China,increasing Urban population and continually upgrading demands,there are many new requirements to construction and development of modern city.Urban Renewal is an effective way to promote city image and residential living condition.This paper introduces the definition of FAR,proposes the calculation model of FAR based on input-output theory and analyses the relation between FAR and margin.According to previously mentioned,Urban Renewal programs are put forward by the implementers.At last,taking an Urban Renewal project for an example,FAR is calculated and new Urban Renewal plan is proposed.
Jingke Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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decision support for sustainable Urban Renewal a multi scale model
Land Use Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Wei Zheng, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Hao Wang, Jingke HongAbstract:Developed cities are troubled by various challenges, including Urban dilapidation, environmental pollution, traffic congestion, lack of facility provision, and economic decline. Urban Renewal, as an important agenda in most countries, holds the aim of addressing these Urban problems. With the inherent complexity of Urban Renewal, Renewal initiatives do not always follow an unsustainable path, which has obtained much criticism from both academia and the public. Therefore, an informative decision-making process would contribute to better Renewal outcomes. Previous research has mainly focused on one aspect of Urban Renewal, in which a comprehensive perspective is lacking. The multi-scale feature of Urban Renewal initiatives also adds complexity and uncertainty to decision-making. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-scale model that supports decision-making on realizing sustainable Urban Renewal. Three sub-modules and a supporting database are included in the model. City, district, and neighborhood scales are the foci of the three sub-modules. Both temporal and spatial data are included in the database. Through experimental study and expert interview, the effectiveness of this model is validated.
Elena Gelormino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Renewal gentrification and health equity a realist perspective
European Journal of Public Health, 2018Co-Authors: Roshanak Mehdipanah, Giulia Marra, Giulia Melis, Elena GelorminoAbstract:Background Up to now, research has focused on the effects of Urban Renewal programs and their impacts on health. While some of this research points to potential negative health effects due to gentrification, evidence that addresses the complexity associated with this relation is much needed. This paper seeks to better understand when, why and how health inequities arise from Urban Renewal interventions resulting in gentrification. Methods A realist review, a qualitative systematic review method, aimed to better explain the relation between context, mechanism and outcomes, was used. A literature search was done to identify theoretical models of how Urban Renewal programs can result in gentrification, which in turn could have negative impacts on health. A systematic approach was then used to identify peer-reviewed studies that provided evidence to support or refute the initial assumptions. Results Urban Renewal programs that resulted in gentrification tended to have negative health effects primarily in residents that were low-income. Urban Renewal policies that were inclusive of populations that are vulnerable, from the beginning were less likely to result in gentrification and more likely to positively impact health through physical and social improvements. Conclusions Research has shown Urban Renewal policies have significant impacts on populations that are vulnerable and those that result in gentrification can result in negative health consequences for this population. A better understanding of this is needed to impact future policies and advocate for a community-participatory model that includes such populations in the early planning stages.
