Study on influences on functions of the central business area of Tokyo from large scale urban redevelopment projects

2008 ◽  
Vol 43.3 (0) ◽  
pp. 469-474
Author(s):  
Tadao Okada ◽  
Tomokazu Arita ◽  
Kenjiro Omura
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Business Area

Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Lees
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

scholarly journals DEMOLITION, REHABILITATION, AND CONSERVATION: HERITAGE IN SHANGHAI’S URBAN REGENERATION, 1990–2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua ZHONG ◽  
Xiangming CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Three Stages

Urban heritage sites in central cities are most difficult to protect during rapid and large scale urban (re)development. Rising land values from property development conflict with and constrain heritage preservation. Compared with many cities in developed and developing countries, large Chinese cities have experienced a stronger redevelopment imperative, faster population growth, and a weaker concern for urban heritages over the last three decades. We use Shanghai to examine the contested evolution of heritage preservation against massive urban redevelopment through three stages from 1990 to the present. Using three heritage projects (Xintiandi, Tianzifang, Bugaoli), we focus on: 1) how each project was implemented and the economic and spatial outcomes each has produced; 2) how the mode of each project’s development interacted with the shifting official policies for heritage preservation; and 3) the implications of the findings, theoretical and practical, for more effective urban preservation.

scholarly journals Reinventing Rio de Janeiro’s old port: territorial stigmatization, symbolic re-signification, and planned repopulation in Porto Maravilha | A reinvenção da zona portuária do Rio de Janeiro: estigmatização territorial, ressignificação simbólica e repovoamento planejado no projeto Porto Maravilha

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Broudehoux ◽  
João Carlos Carvalhaes dos Santos Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Port Area ◽  
New Gateway ◽  
The City ◽  
Intense Process

Rio de Janeiro’s former port has undergone an intense process of transformation driven by investor expectations and real estate profitability objectives. However, in this depressed area, long marked by various territorial stigmas, the rise in land value largely depends upon symbolic revaluation. One of the main objectives of the large-scale urban redevelopment project known as Porto Maravilha is to reverse existing perceptions of the port area, moving away from representations as an abandoned, decadent, dangerous space, towards a more positive image as a showcase for Rio de Janeiro and a new gateway to the city. This article describes the triple process through which this reversal is achieved: territorial stigmatization, symbolic re-signification and planned repopulation. It documents various strategies used by project proponents to radically transform the symbolic, material and social make-up of the area in order to promote its revaluation. It also aims to document diverse modes of resistance developed by local population groups to denounce the invisibility, silencing and symbolic erasure they have suffered, showing, in the process, that in Porto Maravilha, culture serves both as an instrument of gentrification and as a tool of resistance.

Central Avenue Legacies: African American Heritage in Tampa, Florida

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Greenbaum
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
South Florida ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
The University ◽  
Central Avenue

The articles in this issue derive from a public heritage project initiated by Anthropology faculty and students at the University of South Florida. It was designed to salvage memories of the Central Avenue business and entertainment district, previously located on the edge of downtown Tampa, Florida. Central Avenue was eradicated in the mid 1970s as part of a large scale urban redevelopment project. For generations this area nurtured African American community life in Tampa. Twenty years after its destruction, in a city where the vast majority the population was born elsewhere, or were not born at all when redevelopment occurred, there are few citizens who knew anything about Central Avenue. Our goal was to resurrect this ghostly landscape, to make it part of the public heritage of Tampa, and to underscore its importance in the ongoing discourse about race relations and the historical contributions of African Americans.

Protests present new challenges to Chinese government

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Selective Reporting ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
New Challenges

Subject Protests in China. Significance Selective reporting on large-scale events and an often-cited figure of 200,000 protests per year evoke images of a country in upheaval. In fact, most of these protests are tiny and of little interest to fellow citizens. This 'social unrest' still matters: at the very least, it points to larger structural problems, such as insufficient protection of labour and property rights. Impacts Steps will be taken to protect the interests of workers and homeowners better. Where the interests of local government are at stake, for example in urban redevelopment schemes, repression will continue. Due to draconian measures employed against dissidents, there will be no designated anti-regime protests in the foreseeable future.

Rule of Law and Media in the Making of Legal Identity in Urban Southern China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dodom Kim
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Legal Identity ◽  
Critical Scrutiny

As the People’s Republic of China expands its reach into all corners of the globe, the rule of law in China has been subjected to unprecedented critical scrutiny, especially after protests against Hong Kong’s extradition bill broke out in the summer of 2019 and the national security law was introduced in the following year. Under present conditions, in which suspicion of China is widespread among outside observers, what questions can we ask to gain a productive understanding of China’s laws? With this broad question in mind, this chapter turns to a group of tenants facing a large-scale urban redevelopment project—i.e. evictions and demolition—in the prosperous metropolis of Shenzhen, China. In tracing the online and offline conversations of tenants making demands (suqiu) to resolve the problem of schooling for their children, it examines how law-invoking communication and ideas about law circulate and shape aggrieved tenants’ legal identities and fields of action.

Developing urban growth and urban quality: Entrepreneurial governance and urban redevelopment projects in Copenhagen and Hamburg

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802095143
Author(s):  
Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg ◽  
Luise Noring ◽  
Adam Grydehøj
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Urban Quality

This paper considers the cases of urban redevelopment at waterfront and brownfield sites in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hamburg (Germany) to explore how two municipal governments have pursued divergent kinds of entrepreneurial governance, even as they have aimed to create similar kinds of new-build neighbourhoods. Copenhagen and Hamburg have both engaged in large-scale speculative development projects, simultaneously raising urban land values and adding urban public good. The cities follow a long tradition of using land value capture to raise funds for municipal activities, yet their scopes of action and tools for achieving progress have been shaped by local economic and political conditions. Although both cities began redevelopment at similar kinds of sites in the 1990s, Copenhagen’s municipal government was relatively impoverished, while Hamburg’s municipal government was relatively wealthy. As a result, even though both cities deployed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and revolving funds models to reinvest revenues in future development, they possessed different potential strategies for increasing intercity competitiveness: Copenhagen’s immediate aim in redeveloping its Ørestad and harbour districts was to fund a citywide mass transit system and thereby enhance competitiveness through infrastructure development, while Hamburg sought to use its HafenCity waterfront redevelopment to boost competitiveness through port modernisation, increased in urban quality and commercial expansion in the city centre. By comparing these two cases, we can better understand the contingent nature of entrepreneurial governance and urban redevelopment processes.

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