11 research outputs found
Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city
Density is often a major focus of contestation in imagining the future city. The built form of the future city, including its height and density, is a crystallization of current and projected urban growth, as well as a realization of policy ambitions. However, also determinant of future built form are present capacities to extract value from urban development, on the part of both private and public actors. This tight ânexusâ of concerns and interests drives the specific heights, densities and public space provision of the future city. This paper considers, on what grounds todayâs urban residents might be drawn into a battle for the quality of the future city
Beyond variegation: the territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London
Large-scale urban development projects are a significant format of urban expansion and
renewal across the globe. As generators of governance innovation and indicators of the
future city in each urban context, large-scale development projects have been
interpreted within frameworks of âvariegationsâ of wider circulating processes, such as
neoliberalisation or financialisation. However, such projects often entail significant state
support and investment, are strongly linked to a wide variety of transnational investors
and developers and are frequently highly contested in their local environments. Thus,
each project comes to fruition in a distinctive regulatory context, often as an exception
to the norm, and each emerges through complex interactions over a long period of time
amongst an array of actors. We therefore seek to broaden the discussion from an
analytical focus on variegated globalised processes to consider three large-scale urban
development projects (in Shanghai, Johannesburg and London) as distinctive
(transcalar) territorialisations. Using an innovative comparative approach we outline the
grounds for a systematic analytical conversation across mega-urban development
projects in very different contexts. Initially, comparability rests on the shared features
of large-scale developments â that they are multi-jurisdictional, involve long time scales,
and bring significant financing challenges. Comparing three development projects we are able to interrogate, rather than take for granted, how wider processes, circulating
practices, transcalar actors, and territorial regulatory formations composed specific
urban outcomes in each case. Thinking across these diverse cases provides grounds for
rebuilding understandings of urban development politics
Urban regeneration and sustainable housing renewal trends
Urban planning, affordable houses and protection of the cultural natural heritage are important elements to be considered in the design of sustainable urban realities. Homes for One Pound, Granby Four Streets CLT, Homebaked CLT, Make Liverpool CIC and Engage Liverpool CIC are examples of successful initiatives oriented to foster urban regeneration by promoting environmental quality and social cohesion