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The emergence of public housing estate renewal programs in Australia in the last decade has been one of the most prominent developments in social housing policy. These programs have undertaken a broad mix of renewal activity, ranging from outright physical redevelopment and stock replacement for sale, to community development type initiatives to improve social and employment outcomes for residents. However, while a number of evaluations of these programs have been undertaken, the development of evaluation methodology has lagged behind that of other countries. This in part is due to the lack of federal government interest or involvement in these programs which are essentially state specific. The article reviews the evaluations that have been undertaken in the last 10 years in Australia and assesses the relative importance of qualitative methodologies in these evaluations. Despite a strong focus among policy makers on value-for-money aspects of renewal, the authors show that qualitative methods have been commonplace, if limited in range, and argue this is a result of both the difficulty of obtaining comparative quantitative information especially when comparing dissimilar programs between states. In this context, qualitative methods are more easily managed by researchers and offer more insightful assessments than quantitatively based approaches. The article concludes by arguing for a national evaluation methodology to assist in more rigorous evaluations and the extension of qualitative evaluation methods.

Modern industrial development commenced in many Chinese mega-cities after the 1840 Opium War with Britain. Industry continued to develop according to Chinese socialist production policies after 1949. Following the adoption of market economic practices throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, China's industrial landscape began to dramatically transform. One consequence of this transformation is the rapid disappearance of industrial heritage through demolition, as obsolete factories are replaced by new industrial zones outside the city limits. Adaptive reuse of inner city industrial heritage for cultural purposes has emerged as a way to preserve China's dramatic urban industrial heritage. This paper discusses selected cultural precincts in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing which have been adapted from abandoned industrial sites. Comparing the differences of the reuse patterns in the three cities, the paper analyses the local contexts behind the patterns, including the history of industrial development, the current remaining industrial heritage types, specific cultural context, and local government policy.