A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Local urban regeneration initiatives
Birmingham ‘heartlands’
AbstractIn order to protect local democratic accountability and meet the needs of local residents, several larger UK urban authorities have helped to promote initiatives which offer an alternative to the Conservative government's market-led approach to urban regeneration. This paper explores the Birmingham ‘Heartlands’ initiative, setting out when, how, and why it was established, how it operated, what it tried to achieve, what success it enjoyed and what wider lessons it might offer for regeneration initiatives in other UK cities. It charts its transformation into an Urban Development Corporation (UDC), and suggests that one of its main achievements may have been to help to promote a type of agency which can not only call on direct government funding to encourage development and investment, but which has a greater respect and feel for local needs and priorities than the UDCs seen to date.
Local urban regeneration initiatives
Birmingham ‘heartlands’
AbstractIn order to protect local democratic accountability and meet the needs of local residents, several larger UK urban authorities have helped to promote initiatives which offer an alternative to the Conservative government's market-led approach to urban regeneration. This paper explores the Birmingham ‘Heartlands’ initiative, setting out when, how, and why it was established, how it operated, what it tried to achieve, what success it enjoyed and what wider lessons it might offer for regeneration initiatives in other UK cities. It charts its transformation into an Urban Development Corporation (UDC), and suggests that one of its main achievements may have been to help to promote a type of agency which can not only call on direct government funding to encourage development and investment, but which has a greater respect and feel for local needs and priorities than the UDCs seen to date.
Local urban regeneration initiatives
Birmingham ‘heartlands’
Wood, Colin (author)
Cities ; 11 ; 48-58
1994-01-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Local urban regeneration initiatives. Birmingham 'Heartlands'
| Online Contents | 1994
Urban policy & local economic regeneration
| TIBKAT | 1992