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A definition of Urban Renewal presented by the Brisbane City Council website
Think Tank
Simplicity, creativity, and boldness have been the features of IPPUC's projects for more than 35 years. [IPPUC has played a major role in making Curitiba Brazil, THE MODEL for urban renewal.] One of IPPUC's greatest and ongoing challenges has been to ensure that projects are translated into works and urban problem solutions. Problems have become part of solutions, and crises have resulted in creativity.
Best Practice
This is a place filled with information about East Lake Commons; its people, its design, its origin and how to become part of our community or start your own co-housing community. East Lake is part of a much larger urban renewal/ urban pioneering effort involving unprecedented cooperation between government, private commercial enterprise, and local neighborhood associations to revitalize the historic East Lake district of Atlanta
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Presented by Professor Peter Newman of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, WA 6150 Australia, this paper examines innovations from around the world in Ecological Urban Renewal, Green Accounting, Transit Oriented Development, 'Car-Free' City Design, New Urbanism Design, Organic City Processes, and Urban Villages. It suggests that there are many signs of hope in the emerging innovations. Mainstreaming however will require visionary planning, new manuals and training of professionals, and a deep commitment to democracy at the grass roots to overcome entrenched positions and institutions. The role of local government in these innovations is critical.
Tools
This field-tested manual (excerpts and downloadable chapters available) describes how a few energetic people can help steer their community toward development that's sensitive to local values and the environment. Filled with success stories, worksheets, media materials, and resources, it's a do-it-yourself toolkit for anyone who wants to get sustainable economic development moving in their community. Hopeful, creative, civil, and fun, the Economic Renewal process is designed to defuse factionalism, encourage citizen involvement and collaborative decision-making, and lead to practical projects that benefit everyone.
Research
SURF is a mainly self-financing inter-disciplinary research centre within the University of Salford, established in 1999, to undertake inter-disciplinary research on Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures. We work in a broad range of fields covering regeneration and neighbourhood renewal, city and regional thinking, and territorial knowledge, science and technology.
Book
The Upside of Down sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies. Today's converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet there are things we can do now to keep such a breakdown from being catastrophic. And some kinds of breakdown could even open up extraordinary opportunities for creative, bold reform of our societies, if we're prepared to exploit these opportunities when they arise.
Article Directory
Curitiba was the fastest growing city in the most rapidly urbanizing country in South America, and it was choking on fumes from stagnating traffic. The city's young new mayor, Jaime Lerner, who had been schooled as an architect, was loath to solve the problem by ripping apart the fabric of the city in order to accommodate more cars. The following list of articles found at the World Watch Institute offer insight into this acclaimmed model for urban renewal and sustainable economic success.
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