2010 Urban change : The prospect of transformation

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EU urban tools and urban regeneration
(AESOP, 2010) Elisei, Pietro
Under the expression of ‘Urban Regeneration’ it is possible to find many and different kinds of strategies, policies and programmes. Since the end of the 1960s policies of urban regeneration have been designed and implemented on the European continent. These urban policies, at least the first examples, are an attempt to manage urban transformations especially of highly industrialised Western European cities. After the end of post war growth, in the 70s and in the 80s, traditional industrial structure changed rapidly all over Western Europe (Couch, Fraser, Percy, 2003). Urban renewal, Urban revitalisation, Urban redevelopment, Urban requalification, Stadterneuerung, Stadtsanierung, Rénovation urbaine, Réhabilitation urbaine, Renouvellement urbain, Assainissement urbain, Byfornyels, Bysanering, Rinnovamento urbano, Recupero urbano, Riqualificazione urbana are a set of different ways to identify the main urban regeneration and urban renewal policies across Europe in the last 40 years. This set can be easily widened with many other terms. All these expressions represent roughly policies and models for the neighbourhood scale (ABIs, Area Based Initiatives). They are based on partnership building principles, promoting participatory planning, with little relevant financial public investment, and limited in time (Elisei, 2004).