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- Adelfio, Marco, 1980, et al.
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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?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Urban Research and Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1753-5069 .- 1753-5077. ; 14:2, s. 180-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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'.
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- Hamiduddin, Iqbal, et al.
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Social sustainability and new neighbourhoods
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practice. - : Routledge. - 9781138069381
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hamiduddin, Iqbal, et al.
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Social sustainability and new neighbourhoods: Case studies from Spain and Germany
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practicepolicy. - : Routledge. ; , s. 171-192
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter explores the interpretation and implementation of social sustainability principles into the design and development of new neighbourhoods using the case studies of Rieselfeld in Freiburg, Germany, and Polvoranca in Madrid, Spain. Through the implementation of community infrastructure and urban design features to facilitate social interaction, as well as a mix of housing styles and tenures to create a population mix reflective of the wider community, these neighbourhoods appear to embrace the traditional notion of the geographical or “place” community. However, the relevance of the neighbourhood as a meaningful contemporary social entity has become less clear in recent years, because of the restructuring of lifestyle patterns and social relations over space, as a result of advances in transport and communications technology. Furthermore, urban development patterns have increasingly come to reinforce distance intensity through the separation of residential development from other urban functions and land uses, in both car-oriented suburban development and transit-oriented development (TOD) models.
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- Raco, Mike, et al.
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Towards a virtual statecraft : Housing targets and the governance of urban housing markets
- 2022
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Ingår i: Progress in Planning. - : Elsevier. - 0305-9006 .- 1873-4510. ; 166
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we draw on the findings of a mixed methods research project that has examined the production, regulation, and delivery of housing in London. Our aim is to develop fresh insights into the growing mobilisation of numbers and targets in contemporary planning systems. More specifically, we bring two fields of literature into conversation. First, drawing on recent contributions from Pike et al. (2019) we develop their notion of ‘city statecraft or the art of city government and management of state affairs and relations (p.79). We discuss how and why their framing of contemporary urban governance captures current trends in contemporary cities, including: the financialisation of housing and infrastructure; the rolling-out of delivery-focused public private partnerships; and the broader political projects that underpin planning priorities. The paper combines these insights with wider writings in urban studies on virtualism or the analysis of theories and governmental practices that seek to make the world conform to pre-existing ideas, rather than describing and explaining its formation. We argue that target-based forms of governance represent the implementation of a virtual statecraft in which the material realities of actual places become simulated worlds, ripe for calculation and re-making. We show, through in-depth research on housing regulation and investment/development trends in London, the ways in which virtual forms of statecraft are developed and implemented and with what effects on the material outcomes of urban development processes. The findings are of comparative significance as planning systems across Europe and beyond are becoming increasingly focused on market-oriented oriented forms of planning in an effort to boost the production of housing and to deliver social policy outcomes.
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