Inner-city Renewal. Revanchist Utopianism and Stadtschmerz
Författare
Summary, in English
This dissertation seeks to describe, analyse and explain the contemporary poverty urban deprivation research and policies. By looking at the post-war planning policy of two specific urban neighbourhoods, the South Bank in London and the Leopold Quarter in Brussels, it seeks to demonstrate and clarify: 1) the growing political impotence of urban strategies, plans, policies and research projects that attempt to tacke deprivation; 2) the dystopianisation of the contemporary city in general and inner-city neighbourhoods in particular and the absence of comprehensive visions for solving urban problems; 3) the transformation of inner-city misery into a 'spectacle' that serves the well-defined interests of elitist groups in urban societies; 4) the tactics of rescaling poverty and prosperity which are embedded in processes of empowerment and disempowerment.
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
University of Oxford
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Nyckelord
- London
- urban planning
- dystopia
- urban regeneration
- Brussels
Status
Published
Handledare
- Eric Swyngedouw
Försvarsdatum
15 november 2002
Försvarstid
13:15
Försvarsplats
Oxford
Opponent
- Mark Boyle