Public value capture capacity in the urban renewal project process: Fikirtepe case

By the 1830s, the urban renewal project discussed in the previous chapter only further revealed the intractable messiness of the urban landscape. A decade of gentrification exacerbated anxiety about whether the city’s sites and edifices could compete with surrounding topographical and human congestion. The champions of improvement sought to ease their doubts by commissioning images that abstracted, obscured, or shrank into insignificance the disorder surrounding urban landmarks. Yet even as these ideal representations of the city proliferated, Bostonians questioned whether their fellow spectators saw moral landmarks as intended. A middle-class culture of novels, guidebooks, periodicals, plays, and other sources introduced a new typology of spectators—the connoisseur and the poseur, the vista seeker and the speculator, the libertine and the sentimentalist—who revealed their true characters through their divergent reactions to the city’s monuments, parks, galleries, paintings, and sculptures.

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"Urban renewal with dancing and music"?

Focaal ◽

10.3167/fcl.2019.840104 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 (84) ◽

pp. 47-61

Author(s):

Cansu Civelek

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Urban Studies ◽

Gender Inequalities ◽

And Gender ◽

Renewal Project ◽

Urban Renewal Project

In 2012, an urban renewal project in Eskişehir, Turkey, was initiated with claims of “festive renewal,” challenging the theories of critical urban studies that emphasize the disruptive effects of such projects. Built on a discussion about hegemony, which deploys consent and dissent in its organization, this article ethnographically investigates the tactics and strategies of the renewal machine that mobilized and co-opted parts of the locals into the project while invoking layers of dissent, distrust, and discomfort. The article discusses how historically built political, socioeconomic, and gender inequalities were efficiently detected, reconstituted, and put into the service of the renewal machine while revealing tension and dynamism behind the “festive renewal.” It shows a fragility of hegemony that is neither a given nor a completed template.

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The Influence of High-Rise Buildings on Pedestrian-Level Wind in Surrounding Street Canyons in an Urban Renewal Project

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13112745 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 2745

Author(s):

Tzu-Ling Huang ◽

Chien-Yuan Kuo ◽

Chun-Ta Tzeng ◽

Chi-Ming Lai

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Natural Ventilation ◽

Practical Case ◽

Street Canyons ◽

High Rise ◽

Taipei City ◽

Renewal Project ◽

Urban Renewal Project ◽

Shielding Effects

The pedestrian wind environment in a street canyon is affected by a multitude of factors, including the height and geometric shape of the surrounding buildings, the street width, the wind direction, and speed. Wind-tunnel tests were performed to determine the effects of constructing high buildings in an urban renewal project in New Taipei City, Taiwan on the pedestrian wind environments in the surrounding street canyons. The results show that replacing the original low-rise buildings with high-rise buildings could decrease the wind speed and natural ventilation potential in certain surrounding street canyons. The flow fields generated by approaching winds in various street canyons are highly complex in this practical case study. Thus, the pedestrian wind patterns in the street canyons cannot be interpreted in terms of channeling and shielding effects alone, as is typically reported in the literature.

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