Whose urban renaissance?
Subtitle: an international comparison of urban regeneration strategies
By: edited by Libby Porter and Kate Shaw.
Contributors: Porter, Libby, 1973-; Shaw, Kate, 1960-
Series: Routledge studies in human geography -- 26
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780415456821; 9780203884539
Subjects: Urban renewal -- Case studies; City planning -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Libby Porter and Kate Shaw; title: On urban renaissance strategies; title: Top down v bottom up: Doreen from Silwood, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders; title: Class-cleansing in Istanbul's world-city project / Ibrahim Gündogdu and Jamie Gough; title: Believing in market forces in Johannesburg / Tanja Winkler; title: Regeneration through urban mega-projects in Riyadh / Tahar Ledraa and Nasser Abu-Anzeh; title: Regulation and property speculation in the centre of Mexico City / Beatriz García-Peralta and Melanie Lombard; title: Museumization and transformation in Florence / Laura Colini, Anna Lisa Pecoriello, Lorenzo Tripodi and Iacopo Zetti; title: Winners and losers from urban growth in South East England / Bob Colenutt; title: On local limits to regeneration strategies; title: When fish sing in Brussels / Ruth Pringle; title: Renaissance through demolition in Leipzig / Matthias Bernt; title: Image politics and stagnation in the Ruhr Valley / Sebastian Müller and Constance Carr; title: Gentrification and the creative class in Berlin-Kreuzberg / Ingo Bader and Martin Bialluch; title: On grass-roots struggles; title: Gathering memories at the battlefront: www.oldbeijing.org / Yi Jing, Giovanni Allegretti and James McKay; title: The contested reinvention of inner city Green Bay, Wisconsin / Marcelo Cruz; title: Planning from below in Barcelona / Marc Martí-Costa and Jordi Bonet-Martí; title: The ambiguous renaissance of Rome / Giovanni Allegretti and Carlo Cellamare; title: Struggling against renaissance in Birmingham's Eastside / Libby Porter; title: Urban renaissance and resistance in Toronto / Ute Lehrer; title: Gentrification and community empowerment in East London / Claire Colomb; title: On the possibilities of policy; title: Gertrude Street Fitzroy / Rodger Cummins and Kate Shaw; title: Heritage tourism and displacement in Salvador da Bahia / Elena Tarsi; title: Retail gentrification in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona / Núria Pascual-Molinas and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz; title: The Melbourne indie music scene and the inner city blues / Kate Shaw; title: The embrace of Amsterdam's creative breeding ground / Bas van de Geyn and Jaap Draaisma; title: The equitable regeneration of Berne / Angela Stienen and Daniel Blumer; title: Searching for the "sweet spot" in San Francisco / Peter Cohen and Fernando Martí; title: Bottom up v top down; title: Jess from Pepys, a social housing estate in South London / Mark Saunders; title: New theoretical and practical insights for urban policy; title: Whose urban renaissance? / Libby Porter; title: Rising to a challenge / Kate Shaw; title: Bibliography; title: Index.