The role of heritage and future in urban change
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2010
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AESOP
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The visits, tutor presentations and young planners projects were geared towards exploring what role regeneration and new developments were able to play respectively or in common in bringing about sustainable urban change to prepare the city of tomorrow for future generations. The focus on projects which were designed to generate structural change at intra-urban scale was a logical progression from planning physical and social transformation processes which would enable specific urban places to improve or reinvent their heritage value. There is obviously no neat separation between these two urban interventions and most examples presented, as well as student proposals combined these two urban development objectives. An unresolved issue was that of urban change. Some equated it to constant movement akin to the movement of particles in chaos theory, whilst others considered that the pace of urban change was neither as intense nor as rapid. Also they identified two types of change, either driven by natural organic processes mainly outside governance control, or by wilful political intervention, translated into strategies and operational programmes by the professionals of the built environment on the one hand and the development industry on the other hand. Both types of change did not take place all the time and in every part of the city and beyond. Quite the reverse. What did not change signified what was changing, gave it its meaning, its dynamic and its controversial character at times. Moreover, the political standpoint, the economic context varying from free market to social market economies and the position of the development industry, together with investment opportunities were in constant interplay, sometimes in harmony and sometimes in contradiction.
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Book of proceedings: Urban change : The prospect of transformation
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