Renewing the City through Public Participation and Cultural Activities. The Case Study of Gillet Square, a Community-Led Urban Regeneration Project.

Bianchi, Michele

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“…Urban renewal has been implemented for a long time in Western countries going through different phases of urbanization [1]. It has been proved that a policy that aims at coordinating state resources with market forces and public participation in these Western countries performs better [12,13,34,51]. China also undergoes the various forms of urban redevelopment in the unique context of land institutions, government branches, and the current urbanization stage.…”

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“…Social systems such as value systems, decision-making tendencies, and uncertainty have significant impacts on urban renewal [11]. For instance, different urban renewal modes led by the government or market also caused various, differing impacts, such as distinct social welfare equilibrium and satisfaction [12][13][14]. Therefore, a comparative study between different modes is not only helpful in terms of strengthening the theoretical explanation to shift in mode, but it also offers more effective and sustainable urban renewal paths [15] (Kuyucu & Danis, 2014).…”

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Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China

2020

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Urban village redevelopment has multidimensional impacts on resettled households. These impacts can reflect the sustainability of urban village redevelopment. This study empirically compares the gains and losses of the welfare in economic conditions, living conditions, natural environment, psychological conditions, and social security in bottom-up and top-down urban village redevelopment cases in Wuhan, China. The results show that a bottom-up redevelopment mode with participative residents caused negative effects in economic welfare but positive effects on living conditions, natural environment, and psychological condition, thus promoting higher comprehensive welfare and satisfaction. Top-down redevelopment led by the government provides villagers with shared dividends through collective economic reform and thus, contributes to gains in economic conditions and social security. However, top-down redevelopment with less participation of residents leads to welfare losses in living conditions, natural environment, and psychological conditions, which results in lower welfare and satisfaction levels overall. Therefore, a middle-out redevelopment mode with a combination of government efforts and public participation are proposed as a solution for sustainable urban redevelopment.

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Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China

2020

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“…White British are just 33% of the area's demographic (UK Census 2011). Dalston is a high-crime area and has high levels of social deprivation (Bianchi, 2019). It is also known for public riots and violence in the 1960's and 1981, and incidents of unrest as recently as 2011 (Fulcher, 2011).…”

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“…It is also known for public riots and violence in the 1960's and 1981, and incidents of unrest as recently as 2011 (Fulcher, 2011). (Bianchi, 2019). The project brief placed the communities' opinions and needs at its core, though participation in the design process was barely limited to consultations, but it followed the local regeneration plan aims to create a public space for pop-up playgrounds for its local community, a place for festivals, art installations, ethnic events and other communityorganised activities (Greater London Authority, 2002;Sendra, 2015;Ploger, 2018).…”

Section: Gillett Square London Ukmentioning

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“…The project brief placed the communities' opinions and needs at its core, though participation in the design process was barely limited to consultations, but it followed the local regeneration plan aims to create a public space for pop-up playgrounds for its local community, a place for festivals, art installations, ethnic events and other communityorganised activities (Greater London Authority, 2002;Sendra, 2015;Ploger, 2018). It was also meant to enable the local community to set up new businesses and generate services and resources for them (Bianchi, 2019).…”

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European public space projects with social cohesion in mind: symbolic, programmatic and minimalist approaches

Aelbrecht

Stevens

Kumar

2021

European Planning Studies

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The last two decades have witnessed a growing commitment to European public space projects seeking to promote social cohesion. These projects are built on the premise that social cohesion is under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities, and that it should be promoted through public spaces. This paper examines the key commonalities and differences among these new public space projects, in terms of their social, economic and planning policy contexts, social goals, design aims, processes and outcomes, and their diverse representational and use needs. The paper characterizes three distinct open space design approaches -Symbolic, Programmatic and Minimalist -that governments and designers that have been put forward as best practices to enhance social cohesion, which have all been applied in similar socio-cultural and urban contexts: multicultural, lowincome neighbourhoods that are experiencing gentrification. By combining theories and methods from urban design and social science, this paper offers an assessment and comparison of the three case studies and their relative merits and limitations in terms of how they used public space design to support the divergent functional and representational needs of diverse social groups, and the common aim of enhancing cohesion among these groups.

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Platform Spaces: When culture and the arts intersect territorial development and social innovation, a view from the Italian context

Tricarico

Jones

Daldanise

2020

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Renewing the City through Public Participation and Cultural Activities. The Case Study of Gillet Square, a Community-Led Urban Regeneration Project.

Cited by 6 publications

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Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China

Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China

European public space projects with social cohesion in mind: symbolic, programmatic and minimalist approaches

Platform Spaces: When culture and the arts intersect territorial development and social innovation, a view from the Italian context

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