scholarly journals URBAN REGENERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McDonald ◽  
Naglis Malys ◽  
Vida Malienė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The Uk

Over the past few decades, cities have been subjected to severe social and economic pressures, which have had a disproportionate impact on the urban environment. Consequently, this has increased the concentration of the most deprived households in the worst urban neighbourhoods. The UK Governments have attempted to tackle the physical, social and economic consequences of these changes through a variety of mechanisms and policy initiatives with varying degrees of success. The current objective can be interpreted as an attempt to implement regeneration projects or create sustainable communities/places through multi‐agency or partnership programmes. The nature and extent of urban problems are now very well documented; there has been a considerable learning process in the development of different urban regeneration programmes. Over the 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries, the nature of urban regeneration policy has changed direction several times and has applied different focuses. Today, a “sustainable community” is a key issue in an ambitious Government programme “umbrella”. As an objective of the present programme, the UK Government introduced the Sustainable Community Plan in 2003, describing a vision of how our communities are to be developed over next 20 years economically, socially and environmentally, while respecting the needs of future generations. The paper assesses how closely the Regeneration Programme is aligned to the Sustainable Communities Plan. The research within several surveys focuses on sustainable communities and urban regeneration, both have certain parallels and functional overlaps. Santrauka Šiuo metu siekiama įdiegti atgaivinimo projektus ir sukurti darniąsias bendruomenes pasitelkiant partnerystės programas. Darniosios bendruomenės kūrimas yra viena svarbiausių problemų, analizuojamų JK vyriausybės programoje. 2003 m. JK vyriausybes sukurtame darniųjų bendruomenių plane pateikiama vizija, kaip mūsų bendruomenės turetų vystytis ekonomiškai, socialiai ir aplinkos atžvilgiu per ateinančius 20 metu, atsižvelgiant į ateities kartų gerovę ir poreikius. Analizuojama, kaip glaustai miestų atgaivinimo programa yra suderinta su darniųjų bendruomenių kūrimo planu. Tyrimai, pagrįsti tiesioginėmis apklausomis, įvertina darniųjų bendruomenių ir miestų atgaivinimo pletrą bei sąsajas.

The SURegen Workbench

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Chen ◽  
Yonghui Song ◽  
Samantha Bowker ◽  
Andy Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Small Range ◽  
Planning Support Systems ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Problems

Urban regeneration is of considerable contemporary public interest and debate. Sustainable urban regeneration requires a comprehensive and integrated vision and action to address the resolution of urban problems and bring about a lasting improvement in the economic, physical, social, and environmental conditions of an area that has been subject to change. Thus, there are increased requirements for decision making and knowledge sharing by urban planners, local authorities, and other practitioners to achieve sustainability in urban regeneration activities. To address these challenges the research team of the Sustainable Urban Regeneration (SURegen) project (UK Government EPSRC funded, £2.5 Million, in the SUE programme) designed and implemented a prototype Regeneration Workbench, which addresses the key challenges in regeneration practice and provides a flexible and integrated e-platform. Over the past 20 years many Planning Support Systems (PSS) have been developed. Whereas most of these systems address a small range of issues, the SURegen workbench takes a holistic approach to all aspects that have influence sustainable regeneration. Furthermore, the workbench specifically addresses the management of urban regeneration projects and the skills gaps amongst regeneration professionals. This article describes the urban challenges addressed and details the SURegen approach to meeting these challenges.

un Security Council Resolutions before uk Courts

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
Alexander Orakhelashvili
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
The Uk

Over the past decade, the effective performance by the UN Security Council of its primary responsibility in the area of peace and security has increasingly become contingent on the implementation of its decisions within the national legal systems of the UN Member States. An examination of this issue in the context of the British legal system could offer a useful case-study of the ways to enhance the effectiveness of the UN collective security mechanism, to enforce the limits on the legitimacy of that mechanism, and also to highlight the practical difficulties that may accompany the attempts to apply Security Council resolutions domestically. This contribution exposes all these issues, focusing on the practice of the uk courts over the past decade. It examines the mediation of the effect of Security Council resolutions into English law through the 1946 United Nations Act, the royal prerogative and other common law techniques. After that, the contribution moves on to examine the English courts’ handling of the normative conflict between a Security Council resolution and other sources of international law.

scholarly journals Networks, Connectedness and Resilience: Learning From the Children's Fund in Context

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Barnes ◽  
Kate Morris
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Programmes ◽  
Outcomes For Children ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

During the past decade, expectations placed on child welfare services in the UK have moved away from individualised provision geared to meeting the needs of specific children at risk, to consideration of the broader context for children. The introduction of a series of national programmes aimed at addressing social exclusion and tasked with stimulating new approaches to enabling better outcomes for children formed the background for the recent legislation and guidance for local children's services. The Children's Fund was one of a raft of New Labour social policies promoting partnerships between statutory and voluntary organisations in order to address the cross-cutting issue of social exclusion. It was announced following the UK 2000 Spending Review and drew from the Policy Action Team12 (PAT12) Report, ‘Young People at Risk’ (SEU, 2000). Funding started in January 2001 and continues until 2008 with a total allocation during this period of £960 million. Like most special policy initiatives instigated following 1997, the establishment of the Children's Fund was accompanied by both national and local evaluation requirements. The National Evaluation of the Children's Fund (NECF) was undertaken by a team from the Universities of Birmingham and London and this themed section draws on selected findings from that evaluation. Overall results are reported in Edwards et al., (2006).

scholarly journals When Public Policy Is Guided by Misinformation: A Case Study in the Consequences of Fake News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickey Keenan ◽  
Karola Dillenburger
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Uk

Since autism was first recognised, prevalence has increased rapidly. The growing economic as well as social cost to society can only be mitigated by effective interventions and supports. It is therefore not surprising that most governments have developed public policy documents to address the management of autism. Over the past 40-50 years, meaningful evidence has accrued showing that interventions based on the scientific discipline of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) can help people with autism reach their potential. In view of this, nearly all of North America has laws to mandate that ABA-based interventions are available through the health care systems. In contrast, across Europe there are no such laws. In fact, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the body guiding health and social policy in the UK, concluded that it could not find any evidence to support ABA, and therefore could not recommend it. This paper addresses the reasons for these diametrically opposed perspectives. In particular, it examines what happens when health and social care policy is misinformed about effective autism intervention.

scholarly journals APPENDING ROLES OF THAI LANNA TEMPLES FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY OF WAT PHUMIN, NAN PROVINCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 01-11
Author(s):  
Tawipas Pichaichanarong ◽  
Veerawat Sirivesmas ◽  
Rueanglada Punyalikhit
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Theravada Buddhism ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Sacred Architecture ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
Thai People ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Temples have been important in Thai society for over 700 years. When the Sukhothai Kingdom (1238 -1438 AD) was the capital city of Thailand. The great King Ramkamhang had been accepted Theravada Buddhism to be the strongest religion in the land. Later Lanna kingdom (1296 - 1558 AD) was founded in the mid-13th century by King Mangrai. Indeed, King Ramkamhang was friends with King Mangrai, and King Ngam Muang of Phayao Kingdom (1094–1338 AD), it is possible Theravada Buddhism had been introduced to the kingdoms during the reigns of these three Kings. Indeed, the Lanna Kingdom has accepted Theravada Buddhism to be their religion. Until 1894, Lanna Kingdom combined with Siam Kingdom which is the Rattanakosin period (1782 AD - present). Throughout history, temples have become an essential part of Lanna and Thais’ lives. At present, some Thai Lanna temples are not only functions for performing religious rites, but also, they become central for Lanna and Thai communities. Temple (“Wat” in Thai) is a sacred architecture. Moreover, there are ideas to decorate inside temples with arts. Wattana Boonjub (2009) points out that Mural painting is used to teach (Lanna and) Thai people in the past. For example, Wat Phumin, Nan province. With beautiful Lanna architecture and exquisite Lanna mural paintings, these are intangible heritages. These unique characteristics have invited lots of people to visit this temple for years. Therefore, Wat Phumin became a tourist attraction that creates revenue for its community. Johan Galtung (1980) gave the definition for “Self-Reliance”, is the strategy for development to be financial independence. With collaboration from the community, it becomes a sustainable community. For Methodology, quantitative and qualitative methods were used by collecting the data from tourists who have been visited Wat Phumin, Nan province. The data then were analyzed using mean, descriptive statistics, and qualitative data. This study concludes that Wat Phumin, Nan province has created a sustainable community for its community.

scholarly journals What about the Urban Periphery? The Effects of the Urban Renaissance in the Mersey Belt

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Dembski ◽  
Andreas Schulze Bäing ◽  
Olivier Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
The Uk

Cities in the UK have undergone an urban renaissance since the late 1990s, when New Labour started an initiative of the same name. However, the effects of urban growth have been limited mainly to the cores of second-tier cities, creating new challenges in the urban fringe of city regions and for cities outside the major agglomerations. In this article, we examine the process of reurbanisation in the Manchester and Liverpool city regions and to take a closer look at on one of the local authorities in the fringe of these city regions which is trying to grapple with the challenges posed by a new urban age. We find increasing evidence that places in the spatial in-between of urban regions face particular challenges as a result of the urban renaissance, with the already problematic areas requiring increased attention to avoid structural urban problems similar to that of the inner urban areas in the past.  * This article belongs to a special issue on reurbanisation

scholarly journals ReGen. Un viitor creativ pentru Moara lui Assan

2018 ◽  
pp. 287-299
Author(s):  
Oana DĂSCĂLOIU ◽  
Theodora RADU
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The future seems to bring along with the intense densification of cities the tendency to uniformize architecture by losing interest in the value of the heritage of the past and its characteristic forms. In this context, the actions for safeguarding and functional aligning to contemporary requirements of monuments and historical assemblies contribute both to the sustainability of the constructed fund and to the (social and cultural) activation of the areas to which they belong. The case study focuses on a proposal for urban regeneration of Assan’s Mill, an ensemble classified as a historical monument that tells about Bucharest’s industrial past, which is enriched through the project with a new contemporary function designed to extend its life and diversify its possibilities of use.

Urban Policy in England and Wales and in France: A Comparative Assessment of Recent Policy Initiatives

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Booth ◽  
H Green
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Recent Policy

In the past five years, Britain and France have introduced new policy initiatives with the purpose of tackling the problems of urban regeneration in a comprehensive and strategic fashion. City Challenge and the Contrat de Ville were announced as major policy departures in each country, and the respective governments launched them with the intention of achieving early results. Superficially, there is much in common between the two, and the purpose of this paper is to make a comparison of their stated intentions and of the process by which the two initiatives have been developed. In addition to secondary sources, the text of City Challenge bids for Barnsley and Kirklees and of Contrats de Ville for Dunkerque are drawn upon. It is argued that the two initiatives differ insofar as they are geared to the specific administrative and political circumstances of the two countries. There are, moreover, some distinct differences of scale. That apart, some significant similarities in the approaches emerge. Both, for example, lay emphasis upon partnership to achieve stated objectives. Both give a key role to local authorities. Both involve the integration of existing policies and programmes. Both raise the question of whether they are quite the major departure in policy that the two governments have claimed.

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