‘Deep engagement’ and urban regeneration: tea, trust, and the quest for co-design at precinct scale

Glackin, Stephen; Dionisio, Maria Rita

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.01.001

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“…The need to address intellectual and policy challenges involved in these processes has led to questions about how the benefits of engaging locals are identified, and who distinguishes what these benefits are (Fraser, 2005). It is suggested that it is important to consider how the process of engagement is perceived from the perspective of participants, and which groups and individuals feel included or excluded (see Knudsen et al, 2015;Glackin and Dionisio, 2016). Significantly, there is an important question as to whether readiness and capacity for, as well as the right to, engagement can be based on a set of criteria.…”

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Institutional stakeholder participation in urban redevelopment in Tehran: An evaluation of decisions and actions

Erfani

Roe

2020

Land Use Policy

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Experimentation with citizen participation in urban redevelopments is increasing worldwide. This paper aims to scrutinise this trend through an in-depth case study of the decisions and actions taken by the institutional stakeholders involved in participatory urban redevelopment in Tehran, Iran. The discussion is based around two contrasting urban redevelopment areas which set out to adopt a participatory approach involving various stakeholders including institutions (the Municipality of Tehran and the Heritage Organisation) and local owneroccupiers, developing new knowledge, understanding, and clarity about the concept and application of participation in urban redevelopments in developing countries. In both areas, the institutions invited owners to participate in the physical and economic improvements of their places through land assemblage or sharing redevelopment costs. In this study a range of qualitative methods are used including photo-elicitation techniques (PEI) and semi-structured interviews with locals, officials and professionals. The results show the vulnerability of the process. This was revealed when one institution did not maintain their role and when some owner-occupiers acted as free-riders. This highlights the challenge of building an enduring collaboration between institutional stakeholders from the planning to in-use stages, in particular the difficulties that arise as different institutions become involved in the process. This issue is more problematic when resources are limited and/or intermittent. As the results show, the institutional collaboration was smoother when fewer stakeholders were involved in decision making. In the commercial case, there were more complaints about overdue completion in the projects due to poor institutional collaboration. We recommend the need for an agreed mechanism prior to such initiatives where the role of the various stakeholders and their responsibilities are clearly cited, and where all different impact scenarios from the planning to in-use stage are set out.

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Institutional stakeholder participation in urban redevelopment in Tehran: An evaluation of decisions and actions

Erfani

Roe

2020

Land Use Policy

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“…Service-learning projects typically involve a series of collaborative actions with communities, including consultation, information sessions, data gathering, and feedback loops [25,32,33]. This project involved initial presentations about the findings from environmental sampling to inform communities about their potential exposures.…”

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Citizen Science-Informed Community Master Planning: Land Use and Built Environment Changes to Increase Flood Resilience and Decrease Contaminant Exposure

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Shi

Yao

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IJERPH

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Communities adjacent to concentrated areas of industrial land use (CAILU) are exposed to elevated levels of pollutants during flood disasters. Many CAILU are also characterized by insufficient infrastructure, poor environmental quality, and socially vulnerable populations. Manchester, TX is a marginalized CAILU neighborhood proximate to several petrochemical industrial sites that is prone to frequent flooding. Pollutants from stormwater runoff discharge from industrial land uses into residential areas have created increased toxicant exposures. Working with local organizations, centers/institutes, stakeholders, and residents, public health researchers sampled air, water, indoor dust, and outdoor soil while researchers from landscape architecture and urban planning applied these findings to develop a community-scaled master plan. The plan utilizes land use and built environment changes to increase flood resiliency and decrease exposure to contaminants. Using a combination of models to assess the performance, costs, and benefits of green infrastructure and pollutant load impacts, the master plan is projected to capture 147,456 cubic feet of runoff, and create $331,400 of annual green benefits by reducing air pollution and energy use, providing pollution treatment, increase carbon dioxide sequestration, and improve groundwater replenishment. Simultaneously, there is a 41% decrease across all analyzed pollutants, reducing exposure to and transferal of toxic materials.

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“…These new urban policies focus on a change of Government to Governance (see, e.g., [65]), i.e., a new form of acting in specific troubleshooting, with the active involvement of all stakeholders. They also rely on the Empowerment of populations [66] of specific neighborhoods and/or cities, through the promotion and motivation for participation in problem-solving, providing them with information, resources and means of analysis, and delegating powers in the decision-making process-transforming citizens into actors instead of objects [67]. An effort is also done to integrate the policies into a single, coordinated and coherent, action project through the use of arrangements/contracts that ensure the effective commitment of the involved parties, clearly defining the responsibilities of each, the goals and objectives to be achieved, as well as the assessment methodologies [68,69].…”

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A Case Study Driven Integrated Methodology to Support Sustainable Urban Regeneration Planning and Management

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Urban regeneration involves the integrated redevelopment of urban deprived areas, covering physical, socio-economic and environmental aspects of cities, and it is concerned with interventions on early/inner-ring suburbs and historic centers, which are under pressure from population growth and sustainable development policies. The planning and management of urban regeneration interventions usually depend on the city and regional context. Although these interventions involve multiple issues and stakeholders, common characteristics can be identified, thus appealing for a holistic vision and coordination among the various dimensions of the problem. Based on the above context, and on the experience from a large-scale urban regeneration project, this article introduces an integrated methodology to support the planning and management of urban regeneration interventions. The methodology proposes a flexible baseline that can be adapted to urban regeneration projects of different contexts and dimensions, and defines steps, the corresponding stakeholders, and the teams’ engagement, in an integrated framework to plan and oversee urban regeneration actions towards more sustainable and resilient interventions.

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‘Deep engagement’ and urban regeneration: tea, trust, and the quest for co-design at precinct scale

Cited by 48 publications

References 35 publications

Institutional stakeholder participation in urban redevelopment in Tehran: An evaluation of decisions and actions

Institutional stakeholder participation in urban redevelopment in Tehran: An evaluation of decisions and actions

Citizen Science-Informed Community Master Planning: Land Use and Built Environment Changes to Increase Flood Resilience and Decrease Contaminant Exposure

A Case Study Driven Integrated Methodology to Support Sustainable Urban Regeneration Planning and Management

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