Practical tips from ReUrbA partners about 'governance' (13 October 2005) How do you prevent plans for large urban regeneration projects from getting bogged down? Make the most of practical experience in other towns. The ReUrbA partners shared their 'governance' experience with ReUrbA partner Newcastle. We took a few tips out of their recommendations that could also be important for other towns.
What is it that makes 'governance'
so difficult? (13 October 2005) Policymaking has become much more complex in urban regeneration processes. The interdependence of numerous parties (both public and private) has become much greater. You see the relevant authorities doing their very best to make something of 'governance', and this is a very welcome development. But what is it that makes replacing 'government' with governance' so difficult'?
Value orientated planning (24 June 2004)
One of the principles adopted by the ReUrbA² method is the transition of budget orientated planning to value orientated planning.
The idea is that when you take into account all the added value that could be reached after restructuring, you could improve the planning process and broaden the scope of investments.
Tips from the US
for the financing of urban regeneration (24 June 2004)
From July 10 to 12, a team of experts in public and private financing from ULI will be advising the city of Saarbrücken about the Stadtmitte am Fluss project. They will be on site to examine the options for financing public projects. Value-oriented financing is one of the possibilities they will consider.
Mary Beth Corrigan is the Vice President, Advisory Services Program, at the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and she will be talking about tax increment financing .
From government to governance (24 June 2004) Governance is an entirely new field. Urban renewers have to develop entreprise, collaboration , and the ability to organise .
Governance is one of the principles used in the ReUrbA method.
Lifestyle in practice (24 June 2004)
Lifestyle is a tool for balancing supply and demand in urban regeneration. You can read about it all you like, but you will only get good at it by practising. So ReUrbA went to London to practise with its partners. In the field. A very refreshing and extremely educational experience
RICS Award for ReUrbA project
St. Paul's London (24 June 2004)
The ReUrbA-key project in London won a prize in May: in the category 'Community Benefit' St. Paul's was the winner of the regional preliminary rounds of the RICS Awards. 'A new heart for Bow' is an adaptation of a derelict church for community use but with provision for continuing worship. The architects were Matthew Lloyd Architects. The RICS Awards celebrate the best building and conservation projects in England and the winners will take their place in a long line of highly original and impressive built environment projects. Past overall winners include The Bullring in Birmingham, London's Royal Opera House, Cornwall's Eden Project and the site of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. RICS Director, Trevor Hines, said: 'The entries were of an exceptionally high standard and the assessors' task was not an easy one. The winning projects reflect the innovative ways that chartered surveyors and other professionals devise to meet the challenges in creating today's built environment.' Now, the national judges will visit each of the regional heat winners as they compete to be crowned national winner. The National RICS Building of the Year winner will be disclosed in October.
Demolish our town! (24 June 2004) The Scottish town of Cumbernauld was recently the centre of media attention in Britain. The entire town had been nominated by its inhabitants to be razed to the ground by the TV programme Demolition, which is looking for the ugliest building of the United Kingdom. Angry councillors disagree: they are working hard on reconstruction. They think this sort of media attention only gets in the way of their constructive efforts. What's going on?
‘A City to Dwell in: Churches and Urban Renewal’ (12 May 2004)
22 June 2005, London:
A second life for underused and derelict churches.
(Seminar in the Architecture week)
'Councillors with balls required' (28 January 2004) Urban regeneration involves many parties, which often brings the consultation to a standstill. If you want to avoid this situation, authoritive town councillors witrh balls are required. This is stated by Maarten van Loon, member of the coordinating team of the European project SUPER in which 55 partners from 15 countries examined the gap between theory and practice in urban regeneration.
Two Dutch companies
win urban regeneration competition (28 January 2004)
Two companies each won € 20,000 to elaborate on their ideas for urban restructuring in the urban region Rotterdam/The Hague in the Netherlands. An international competition, organised by a Dutch provincial government, with two Dutch winners.
Involve housing associations
in urban regeneration! (28 January 2004) Use their knowlegde and experience even more, was the recommendation during a ReUrbA² theme meeting.
How to involve residents in urban regeneration (22 December 2004)
Two hundred residents from large cities in seventeen EU member states gathered for two days in the Netherlands to compare notes on urban regeneration. One recommendation: if you start small, public participation will be more successful.
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