Impacts of a French Urban Renewal Program on Local Housing Markets

This article examines defining features of East German urban planning—primarily the housing complex and the city/settlement binary—and their relationship to Eisenhüttenstadt, a city founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, an East German socialist utopia. Today Eisenhüttenstadt is home to a novel form of urban renewal in which architects and planners look to the socialist past for inspiration as they imagine a new urban future. I examine the history of socialist urbanism as it was implemented in Eisenhüttenstadt, as well as how residents and urban planners came to understand socialist urbanism in the years immediately following German reunification. I then examine an urban renewal program, started in 2014, that explicitly draws on the socialist past. In doing so, I aim to consider the socialist city not as an architectural form but as a set of practices, spatial imaginations, and ethical commitments that can be reanimated even in a capitalist sociopolitical context.

An evaluation of an urban renewal program and its effects on neighborhood resident's overall wellbeing using concept mapping

Health & Place ◽

10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.04.009 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. 9-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Roshanak Mehdipanah ◽

Davide Malmusi ◽

Carles Muntaner ◽

Carme Borrell

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Concept Mapping ◽

Renewal Program ◽

Urban Renewal Program

Area-Based Urban Renewal Approach for Smart Cities Development in India: Challenges of Inclusion and Sustainability

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v6i4.4484 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 202-215 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarbeswar Praharaj

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Implementation Framework ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Renewal Program ◽

Development Approach ◽

Urban Renewal Program

Cities in the Global South face rapid urbanization challenges and often suffer an acute lack of infrastructure and governance capacities. Smart Cities Mission, in India, launched in 2015, aims to offer a novel approach for urban renewal of 100 cities following an area-based development approach, where the use of ICT and digital technologies is particularly emphasized. This article presents a critical review of the design and implementation framework of this new urban renewal program across selected case-study cities. The article examines the claims of the so-called “smart cities” against actual urban transformation on-ground and evaluates how “inclusive” and “sustainable” these developments are. We quantify the scale and coverage of the smart city urban renewal projects in the cities to highlight who the program includes and excludes. The article also presents a statistical analysis of the sectoral focus and budgetary allocations of the projects under the Smart Cities Mission to find an inherent bias in these smart city initiatives in terms of which types of development they promote and the ones it ignores. The findings indicate that a predominant emphasis on digital urban renewal of selected precincts and enclaves, branded as “smart cities,” leads to deepening social polarization and gentrification. The article offers crucial urban planning lessons for designing ICT-driven urban renewal projects, while addressing critical questions around inclusion and sustainability in smart city ventures.

2. How Policy Paradigms Change: Lessons from Chicago’s Urban Renewal Program

How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development ◽

10.9783/9780812297171-003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 21-33

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Renewal Program ◽

Urban Renewal Program

Issues and challenges in the urban renewal program of Lagos State

The African Metropolis ◽

10.4324/9781315157306-7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 151-175

Author(s):

Moses Adedotun Atilade

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Renewal Program ◽

Lagos State ◽

Urban Renewal Program