Unpacking new labour's ‘Urban Renaissance’ agenda: Towards a socially sustainable reurbanization of British cities?

Colomb, Claire

doi:10.1080/02697450701455249

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“…It was often the local authorities that had the task of stitching it all together in practice (Colomb 2007). The new focus on building at higher densities in cities promised, among other things, reduced social division through proximity, reduced car use by linking work-residential location and with density supporting public transport use and preventing the need for new infrastructure associated with greenfield development.…”

Section: Urban Renaissancementioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism

Holman

Mace

Paccoud

et al. 2015

Progress in Planning

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Section: Urban Renaissancementioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism

Holman

Mace

Paccoud

et al. 2015

Progress in Planning

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“…Such complications and their nature and significance have yet to be explored because detailed empirical evidence on the physical outcomes of urban containment and densification is lacking (Burton, 2000;Colomb, 2007;Orenstein et al, 2014). 5 The paper addresses this gap in knowledge by considering the following question.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Under the radar? ‘Soft’ residential densification in England, 2001–2011

Bibby

Henneberry

Halleux

2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Urban compaction policies have been widely adopted in developed countries in pursuit of more sustainable cities. Compactness is achieved through a process of 'densification', of developing and using land and buildings more intensively. However, empirical evidence on the processes and outcomes of urban densification is lacking. The paper addresses this lacuna. It considers densification in England, a country that has long experience of applying policies of urban containment and consolidation; and one where new data sources allow the analysis of recent land use change at a level of detail not hitherto possible. In England between 2001 and 2011, the bulk of additional dwellings were accommodated within urban areas, increasing their density. Yet, there were wide inter-and intra-regional variations in the pattern of densification: for example, in the contributions of large scale, formal development and of small scale, informal, gradual change -of 'hard' and 'soft' densification -to the process. The significant differences in local experiences of densification that result raise major issues for policy.

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“…There are some noticeable signs of the transformation of traditional residential patterns and inner city neighbourhoods in Central and Eastern Europe . In Western Europe -for instance, Manchester -we can observe population growth of the inner cities in the 1990s, despite the fact that other similar cities stagnated from a demographic point of view (DETR, 2000;Colomb, 2007). This renewed growth of the populations in core city areas indicated the start of the reurbanisation process, driven by a preference for developing local sectors mainly in the service and knowledge economy, such as banking, media, arts and entertainment (Lever, 1993;Cheshire, 1995).…”

Section: Reurbanisation As a Micro-regional Processmentioning

confidence: 99%