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London's King's Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and 'liveable' global city model for an era of climate emergency?
Cities have long been subject to urban containment policies against urban sprawl. Climate change concerns have recently added to the imperative to densify urban space. Urban compaction is often pursued through the creation of ‘exemplar’ urban developments that superficially implement ‘best practice’ ideas from elsewhere. In this paper, we abandon the notion of ‘best practice’ in favour of context-sensitive ‘good practices’. Taking London’s King’s Cross redevelopment as a case study, this paper draws on qualitative methods to examine the contribution of context and path-dependency, as a product of local and non-local forces, to the emergence of King´s Cross as ‘good practice’.
London's King's Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and 'liveable' global city model for an era of climate emergency?
Cities have long been subject to urban containment policies against urban sprawl. Climate change concerns have recently added to the imperative to densify urban space. Urban compaction is often pursued through the creation of ‘exemplar’ urban developments that superficially implement ‘best practice’ ideas from elsewhere. In this paper, we abandon the notion of ‘best practice’ in favour of context-sensitive ‘good practices’. Taking London’s King’s Cross redevelopment as a case study, this paper draws on qualitative methods to examine the contribution of context and path-dependency, as a product of local and non-local forces, to the emergence of King´s Cross as ‘good practice’.
London's King's Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and 'liveable' global city model for an era of climate emergency?
Adelfio, M (Autor:in) / Hamiduddin, I (Autor:in) / Miedema, E (Autor:in)
07.01.2020
Urban Research and Practice (2020)
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
710
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