Working out a method that brings together the best of practical experience and the best of theory. This has been the aim of the ReUrbA partners, working in the field of urban regeneration in different countries and in different ways. Over the last few years they have developed a method that is rooted in their day-to-day work. They have come up with four strategies they regard as successful approaches to urban regeneration.

1. Lifestyles
This strategy is about making strategic choices. Who are the potential users of your renewed urban area? The lifestyle approach may help in tailoring supply to an increasingly diffuse demand. >>>DOWNLOAD REURBA DOCUMENT ON LIFESTYLE STRATEGY
>>>LEARN ABOUT LIFESTYLES

2. Governance
This strategy is about the process of restructuring. Your restructuring project should focus on current and future users' demands, from the beginning to the very end. Collaboration with residents, investment partners and stakeholders, in conjunction with communications and marketing, is the first step towards successful restructuring.
>>>DOWNLOAD REURBA DOCUMENT ON GOVERNANCE STRATEGY
>>>LEARN ABOUT GOVERNANCE

3. Creative densification
This strategy is about the actual physical structure. Given the scarcity and the high cost of space, densification is called for. And, as skyscrapers don't fit in most European urban contexts, it's creative densification we should be aiming at; densification that increases the quality of the working and living environment.
In the meantime, we are also talking about the elaboration of a fourth strategy: a value-oriented financial strategy. This approach looks not only at the 'ordinary' cost of restructuring but also, and in particular, at the added value that the restructuring of a neighbourhood will generate in the future. >>>DOWNLOAD REURBA DOCUMENT ON CREATIVE DENSIFICATION STRATEGY

4. Value-oriented planning
This strategy concerns the switch from budget-oriented planning to value-oriented planning. By calculating all the added value generated by restructuring in the long term, one can broaden the scope of public and private investment in the short term, thereby ensuring sustainable regeneration projects. >>>DOWNLOAD REURBA DOCUMENT ON VALUE ORIENTED PLANNING