Inner-city Renewal. Revanchist Utopianism and Stadtschmerz
(2002)- Abstract
- 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)... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- author
- Baeten, Guy LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Boyle, Mark, University of Strathclyde
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- London, urban planning, dystopia, urban regeneration, Brussels
- publisher
- University of Oxford
- defense location
- Oxford
- defense date
- 2002-11-15 13:15:00
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 22701823-5ccc-465d-9269-d8dd8127e253 (old id 619785)
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abstract = {{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.}},
author = {{Baeten, Guy}},
keywords = {{London; urban planning; dystopia; urban regeneration; Brussels}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{University of Oxford}},
title = {{Inner-city Renewal. Revanchist Utopianism and Stadtschmerz}},
year = {{2002}},
}