TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Libby
AU  - Shaw,Kate
TI  - Whose urban renaissance?: an international comparison of urban regeneration strategies 
T2  - Routledge studies in human geography
SN  - 9780415456821 (hbk)
AV  - HT170 .W56 2009
U1  - 307.3416 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Case studies
KW  - City planning
KW  - Cities and towns
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index; Introduction / Kate Shaw and Libby Porter -- On urban renaissance strategies -- Top down vs bottom up: Doreen from Silwood, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders -- Class-cleansing in Istanbul's world-city project / Ibrahim Gündoǧdu and Jamie Gough -- Believing in market forces in Johannesburg / Tanja Winkler -- Regeneration through urban mega-projects in Riyadh / Tahar Ledraa and Nasser Abu-Anzeh -- Regulation and property speculation in the centre of Mexico City / Beatriz García-Peralta and Melanie Lombard -- Museumization and transformation in Florence / Laura Colini ... [et al.] -- Winners and losers from urban growth in South East England / Bob Colenutt -- On local limits to regeneration strategies -- When fish sing in Brussels / Ruth Pringle -- Renaissance through demolition in Leipzig / Matthias Bernt -- Image politics and stagnation in the Ruhr Valley / Sebastian Müller and Constance Carr -- Gentrification and the creative class in Berlin-Kreuzberg / Ingo Bader and Martin Bialluch -- On grass-roots struggles -- Gathering memories at the battlefront: www.oldbeijing.org / Yi Jing, Giovanni Allegretti and James McKay -- The contested reinvention of inner city Green Bay, Wisconsin / Marcelo Cruz -- Planning from below in Barcelona / Marc Martí-Costa and Jordi Bonet-Martí -- The ambiguous renaissance of Rome / Giovanni Allegretti and Carlo Cellamare -- Struggling against renaissance in Birmingham's Eastside / Libby Porter -- Urban renaissance and resistance in Toronto / Ute Lehrer -- Gentrification and community empowerment in East London / Claire Colomb -- On the possibilities of policy -- Gertrude Street Fitzroy / Rodger Cummins and Kate Shaw -- Heritage tourism and displacement in Salvador da Bahia / Elena Tarsi -- Retail gentrification in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona / Núria Pascual-Molinas and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz -- The Melbourne indie music scene and the inner city blues / Kate Shaw -- The embrace of Amsterdam's creative breeding ground / Bas van de Geyn and Jaap Draaisma -- The equitable regeneration of Berne / Angela Stienen and Daniel Blumer -- Searching for the "sweet spot" in San Francisco / Peter Cohen and Fernando Martí -- Bottom up sv top down -- Jess from Pepys, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders -- New theoretical and practical insights for urban policy -- Whose urban renaissance? / Libby Porter -- Rising to a challenge / Kate Shaw -- Bibliography -- Index
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008028332.html
ER  -