Pop-up landscapes: a new trigger to push up land value?

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

“…In this connection, Schaller and Guinand [42] explained that urban entrepreneurs are catalysts of new investment and allow the recuperation of abandoned buildings through regeneration. This emphasis on culture was discussed by Hall [43], concluding that the construction of a truly creative city should incorporate culture and creativity networks.…”

Address Urban Regeneration Challenge with Temporary Creative Uses: The Case of Beijing’s Dashilar Area

“…As the name 'Dashilar New Landscape' indicates, the landscape created during and as a result of Beijing Design Week embodies the vision of the district government and regeneration project staff for the Dashilar area. Similar to those demonstrated in existing studies (Colomb 2012;Schaller and Guinand 2018), temporary creative uses in this case are drawn on to provide opportunities for potential new land and property users, tenants and investors to witness and experience an alternative version of the Dashilar neighbourhood (Zhang 2018). This experience is believed to be able to help change their perceptions of the area and stimulate their interests in realising this 'new landscape' of Dashilar, not only temporarily during Beijing Design Week but also more permanently in the long term, namely regenerating the area through creative and cultural uses (interviews with regeneration project staff, S-1 and S-2).…”

“…Following from the latter point in the previous paragraph and as indicated in the introduction, I would like to end this chapter with a brief discussion of the potential diversity of temporary urbanism practices, even within those that are engaged by city governments for regeneration purposes. In comparison with cases examined in existing literature (Colomb 2012;Schaller and Guinand 2018), the case of the Dashilar area is similar in that temporary creative uses are enlisted to construct an alternative, arguably more attractive, image of the area in order to induce interests of and bring in new land and property users and tenants, eventually achieving the regeneration purpose. However, within this similarity, there is also a difference between these cases and the case of the Dashilar area.…”

“…In recent years, temporary and pop-up uses of vacant urban spaces as artistic or cultural sites, which were previously often regarded as 'marginal', have become more popular among city planners and policy makers. Such temporary urbanism practices have been increasingly enlisted in creative city strategies to create urban landscape that attracts 'creative class' consumers to eventually achieve urban regeneration and revalorisation, particularly in the West (Andres 2013;Colomb 2012;Ferreri 2015;Harris 2015;O'Callaghan and Lawtown 2015;Schaller and Guinand 2018). Existing studies identify that temporary and pop-up creative uses are valued by city governments in the West for two main reasons.…”

“…Secondly, such uses have the ability to induce spatial-temporal imagination and alter perceptions of places by providing a materialised potential look and feel to vacant urban spaces at a relatively low cost and flexibility in an era of austerity after the financial crisis of 2008 (Andres 2013;Colomb 2012;Harris 2015). It is argued that through temporary and popup uses, presently run-down, vacant, or 'wasted' areas can be imagined "as playgrounds or workspaces for 'creative' entrepreneurs; as milieux that can attract other creative workers and consumers … or as tourist attractions" (Colomb, 2012, p. 138) in the future, and thus may gain the interests of investors and developers (Andres 2013;Colomb 2012;Harris 2015;Schaller and Guinand 2018).…”