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This urban renaissance review of Glasgow looks back over the 1990s, when a succession of strategic initiatives and major events brought regeneration to several key parts of the city, including along the banks of the Clyde, and helped lift investment and activity. This book provides a policy tool kit for Glasgow, with the aim of improving the distressed urban areas that are holding the city back

The city of Palaio Faliro is a suburb of Athens, around 9 km from the city centre of the Greek capital, located on the southern coast of the Athens Riviera with a population of nearly 65.000 inhabitants. The municipality of Palaio Faliro has recently achieved a regeneration of its urban profile and dynamics, which extends on an area of Athens southern costal zone combining historic baths, a marina, an urban park, an Olympic Sports Complex and the tramway. The final result promotes sustainable development and sustainable mobility on the Athens coastline taking into consideration the recent metropolisation of the Athens agglomeration. After a brief history of the municipality, we present the core of the new development. Behind the visible results, we highlight the main interactions among the principal actors that made this change possible, and constitute the main challenges for the future. With this case we learn that while the arrangement of space has its logistic difficulties regarding financial and engineering aspects, the deeper challenge is that of exercising democracy justly - and even more so, in its own birthplace.

Wie sich die Corona-Pandemie auf die Stadtentwicklung auswirken wird, ist eine in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft viel diskutierte Frage. Kontrovers eingeschätzt wird dabei vor allem, ob die Pandemie zu einer 'Krise des Urbanen' führen könnte, wenn sich die potenziell dezentralisierenden Effekte der Digitalisierung mit Wohnkostensteigerungen sowie mit pandemiebedingten Einschränkungen und Risikowahrnehmungen des Lebens in Großstädten überlagern. Mit Blick auf die verfügbare Forschungsliteratur wird hier die Einschätzung vertreten, dass Corona der urbanen Renaissance des 21. Jahrhunderts einen Dämpfer zufügen kann, nicht aber ihr Ende einleiten wird. Auch im digitalen, post-pandemischen Zeitalter werden große Städte ihre funktionale und symbolische Bedeutung bewahren.

"A quarter of a century ago, Professor Peter Borsay identified a specifically urban phenomenon of cultural revival that took root in the late seventeenth century, leading to the flowering of a wide range of cultural forms and the extensive remodelling of the townscape along classically inspired lines. Borsay called this the 'English Urban Renaissance'. These essays, including Borsay's reflective and thought-provoking revisiting of his concept, offer a wide-ranging exploration of the continuing and still developing impact of the 'English Urban Renaissance' and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. The essays reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity and the strength and vitality of urban culture beyond the metropolis. They trace the development of urban culture over time in the light of the concept of 'urban renaissance', showing how urban townscapes and cultural life were transformed throughout the long eighteenth century. Together, they establish the continuing impact and importance of Borsay's concept, demonstrate the breadth of its influence in the UK and beyond, and point to possible areas of research for the future."--

England, das ist meine Ausgangsthese, ist in städtebaulicher Hinsicht zurzeit das vielleicht interessanteste und anregendste Land Europas. In England ist Städtebau, anders als in Deutschland, ein wichtiges Thema auf vielen Ebenen: in den Massenmedien, vor allem in den Zeitungen und im Fernsehen, auf der Ebene der nationalen Regierung, auf der Ebene der großen Städte, auf der Ebene des wichtigsten Architektenverbandes, des Royal Institute of British Architects. Der zentrale Begriff, der all diese Akteure beflügelt und, trotz aller internen Gegensätze, zusammenhält, ist Urban Renaissance, die Renaissance der Innenstädte, vor allem die Renaissance der Zentren. Es ist erstaunlich, welche herausragende Bedeutung das Thema «Urban Renaissance» in England gewonnen hat - ganz im Gegensatz zu unserem Lande, das sich eher im Klagen über das Schrumpfen der Städte politisch erschöpft. Schon seit Ende der 80er Jahre und vor allem in den 90er Jahren lassen sich in zahlreichen englischen Städten die Zeichen einer neuen Stadtpolitik erkennen. Schrumpfende ehemalige Industriestädte in Mittel- und Nordengland werden aus den Zentren heraus neu animiert und für die kommunale Konkurrenz fit gemacht. Manche Städte, etwa Birmingham und Manchester, können als Teststädte der neuen Stadtpolitik angesehen werden, die noch vor der Regierungsübernahme durch New Labour die Weichen für eine Urban Renaissance stellten.

This study focuses on the "European city" model and its impact on urban policies, emphasising city centre housing as a central issue. The urban renaissance as it is discussed in literature will also be reconsidered, as this study seizes on these two subject matters and explores their relation looking at Berlin's historic city centre as the study area. The development of Berlin's historic city centre as a housing location since 1990 is analysed showing how in four phases the change of this area from a marginal populated urban frontier to one of Berlin's most favoured and expensive housing locations has developed using the "European City" as a development model.

Canberra is at a turning point in its history. It established a reputation in the twentieth century as a model for city planning, but some of the assumptions which guided its development in the past need to be re-examined in the light of current trends and the goals of sustainable development. In particular, Canberra has become a city with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong private sector development linked to government and higher education. This gives local actors the opportunity to make careful strategic choices about how best to maintain the high standard of living and quality of landsca

Canberra is at a turning point in its history. It established a reputation in the twentieth century as a model for city planning, but some of the assumptions which guided its development in the past need to be re-examined in the light of current trends and the goals of sustainable development. In particular, Canberra has become a city with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong private sector development linked to government and higher education. This gives local actors the opportunity to make careful strategic choices about how best to maintain the high standard of living and quality of landscape and environment which were hallmarks of Canberra's growth in the past.