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Urban Regeneration Management: International Perspectives
We had three primary aims in preparing this volume and inviting colleagues
to join us. Firstly, we wanted to examine the perception that there
was a ‘global brand’ of urban regeneration management and practice. In
part, this has become a popular view shaped by what appears to be the
mono-cultural experience of contemporary urban cites reinforced by the
uniformity of shopping malls, airports and hotels. As we try to explore
in what follows, this perception is far from being a ‘mono-cultural’ one.
It is shaped, developed and promoted by Western advanced industrial
notions of what the comfortable urban experience is about, and in its
conformity of appearance, it also reinforces a particular set of ideas of
urban regeneration.
Secondly, we wanted to refl ect, ourselves, on the patterns and practice
of urban regeneration management across a number of different sites and
places. We are very well aware of how a particular ‘model’ of urban regeneration
has become the norm, and we wanted to see if that was the case
but also how, and in what ways do different places anticipate and plan for
the processes of regeneration, including developing programmes of training
and education.
Finally, we wanted to refl ect upon and explore the responses of local
communities and neighbourhoods to the arrival of the regeneration ‘caravan’
in their locality. Patterns of resistance or articulating different ways
of effecting change are important to capture and explore. It seems to us
that describing, interpreting, refl ecting and providing a way of making
sense of these patterns of resistance or collaboration are important for
all of us.
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