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  1. A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

    Although their importance has been increasingly recognized, an integrated review covering sustainability, planning, and urban renewal has yet to be produced. Based on 81 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal over the period 1990-2012. The review focuses on the planning sub-system ...

  2. Frontiers

    Urban renewal involves a wide range of stakeholders with diverse expectations and interests. Conflicts in urban renewal projects arise from intricate relationships among multiple stakeholders, hindering the urban renewal process. With a large amount of current literature examining the barriers, difficulties, and solutions in urban regeneration, a critical review is required to holistically ...

  3. Urban Regeneration Processes and Social Impact: A Literature Review to

    Starting from the keywords "urban regeneration" and "social impact", the paper integrates the literature review with bibliometric maps through the VOSviewer tool to investigate the role of ...

  4. A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

    Based on 81 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal over the period 1990-2012. The review focuses on the planning sub-system and the social sub-system of urban renewal in terms of the evaluation of sustainability. The complexity of achieving sustainable urban renewal is emphasized ...

  5. Urban Renewal: A Literature Review of Policies

    This literature review began with a PsychInfo search using the terms "urban renewal", "urban redevelopment", and "urban revitalization". The search produced 384 results which were

  6. Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies

    While the aspect of "economy and financial support" is absent in this evaluation system, this paper's policy analysis adds it as an "Instrument (F)" as it has been widely discussed in multiple kinds of literature on urban renewal and urban village redevelopment in China (e.g. Chen and Wu, 2020; Zhu, 2020; Yuan et al., 2021).

  7. To join the rebuild or not? An exploration of the factors influencing

    A review of many reported cases in Taiwan shows that in the process of urban renewal, especially at the early stage of urban renewal integration, most people in the community are expectant and wait-and-see attitude toward the urban renewal projects under integration. However, urban renewal issues in the community are multifaceted.

  8. Inner City Urban Renewal: Assessing the Sustainability and ...

    This research involved literature review, expert interview and household survey to uncover issues that help to achieve sustainability in urban renewal at local level. For this purpose, review of literature was undertaken to identify indicators that are vital in meeting sustainability in urban renewal in the context of the study sites.

  9. Urban Regeneration Processes and Social Impact: A Literature Review to

    This section has been articulated into two main outputs considered complementary for defining the scholarly landscape on the topic at hand: literature review and bibliometric maps. 3.1 Literature Review. The search for scientific literature in Scopus using the keywords "urban regeneration" and "social impact" shows that the number of ...

  10. The Relationship Between Urban Renewal and the Built Environment: A

    Urban renewal and the built environment have become two of the hottest topics in urban planning studies. Although existing literature has started to examine both of them from different perspectives, a comprehensive review with a bibliometric analysis is necessary to fully reveal the association between them.

  11. Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Community Renewal Projects in

    Urban renewal is extensively practiced around the world and has attracted substantial attention among scholars and the public. To ensure that urban renewal is directed toward sustainable development goals, sustainability assessments for urban renewal projects have become critical topics. Simultaneously, the ex ante evaluation research of urban renewal projects has not received enough academic ...

  12. Evaluating the Comprehensive Benefit of Urban Renewal Projects on the

    Thus, promoting urban renewal projects and improving their performance is a global topic. In many circumstances, urban renewal is planned and initiated on the project scale, but on the area scale, overall coordination of the projects can bring about comprehensive benefits to urban areas on a macro view. ... Based on the literature review, the ...

  13. Urban renewal, gentrification and health equity: a realist perspective

    The question was developed and refined through an initial scope of the literature. The review was intended to explore the relation between urban renewal, gentrification and health by posing two questions were defined as whether, how and why: (1) urban renewal results in gentrification; and (2) gentrification affects health. Step 2.

  14. Strategic Approaches to Sustainable Urban Renewal in Developing ...

    Successful urban renewal requires a multifaceted strategic approach incorporating both local and regional regulations, developed through multi-sector and multi-agency partnerships. In practice, developments in China unfold as discrete projects without a broader consideration for city planning or long-term sustainability. Critically, no strategic manifesto has yet emerged to direct sustainable ...

  15. Historic Preservation and Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-first

    The Federal Bulldozer: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949-1962. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Google Scholar. Asabere Paul K., Huffman Forrest E. 1991. "Historic Districts and Land Values." ... A Meta-analytic Review of the Literature." Journal of Cultural Economics 27 (3-4): 159-76. Crossref. Google Scholar. Noonan Douglas S ...

  16. A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

    Based on 81 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal over the period 1990-2012. The review focuses on the planning sub-system and the ...

  17. Paths and strategies for sustainable urban renewal at the neighbourhood

    The remainder of this paper is organised as follows: Section Two reviews the literature on urban renewal decision-making. Section Three presents the conceptual framework with details. ... Several research methods were adopted to develop the proposed framework, including a literature review, expert interviews, and a case study. The literature ...

  18. Evaluating the Comprehensive Benefit of Urban Renewal Projects on the

    Thus, this study enriches urban renewal performance assessment literature by making significant contributions. First, this research identified the unique criteria for area-scale renewal performance evaluation based on the extant literature review, especially considering the coupling coordination benefits between the multiple projects.

  19. An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China

    Shenzhen's five main urban renewal policies, issued between 2009 and 2016, are analyzed through this framework. Content analysis and pattern-matching is used in the review and analysis of the data. The results show that "Environment" side policies tend to be the most widely applied by the Shenzhen municipal government.

  20. Urban regeneration in the light of social innovation: A systematic

    A systematic integrative literature review was used as a research strategy, ... The third level, represented by the color gray, are the characteristics that are relevant to promote urban renewal (networks, social relations, collaboration, social cohesion, management, scalability, and sustainability), and the last level, represented by the color ...

  21. (DOC) Literature review urban renewal

    This study examined the implications of highway development and expansion on urban residents in Abeokuta city. Data was obtained from the administration of questionnaires to 545 residents of Abeokuta city, who were randomly selected. Simple descriptive statistics and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were employed. The findings show that the traffic ...

  22. Buildings

    The renewal of buildings is a crucial topic in urban renewal and plays an essential role in sustainable urban development. The concept of urban renewal originated from the large-scale urban relocation and reconstruction in Western countries following World War II [1,2].Continual urbanization leads to the continual flow of population toward urban areas and changes in urban space demands.

  23. Opinion: How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything

    Opinion: How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything. America's infrastructure woes stem from policies like poorly executed urban renewal, excessive public process, and overly restrictive environmental laws. This trifecta of failure has blocked progress and made housing shortages worse, opines Darrell Owens.

  24. A review of urban resilience literature

    Abstract. Urban resilience (UR) is a central concept in enabling cities to be prepared for disasters and unexpected events caused by climate change-induced extreme weather conditions. The field is dedicated to developing solutions and models in this regard. In particular, the emergence of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has threatened certain ...

  25. Remote Sensing

    Construction waste is an inevitable byproduct of urban renewal, causing severe pressure on the environment, health, and ecology. Accurately estimating the production of construction waste is crucial for assessing the consumption of urban renewal. However, traditional manual estimation methods rely heavily on statistical data and historical experience, which lack flexibility in practical ...