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Inner-city Renewal. Revanchist Utopianism and Stadtschmerz

Author

  • Guy Baeten

Summary, in English

This dissertation seeks to describe, analyse and explain the contemporary poverty urban deprivation research and policies. By looking at the post-war planning policy of two specific urban neighbourhoods, the South Bank in London and the Leopold Quarter in Brussels, it seeks to demonstrate and clarify: 1) the growing political impotence of urban strategies, plans, policies and research projects that attempt to tacke deprivation; 2) the dystopianisation of the contemporary city in general and inner-city neighbourhoods in particular and the absence of comprehensive visions for solving urban problems; 3) the transformation of inner-city misery into a 'spectacle' that serves the well-defined interests of elitist groups in urban societies; 4) the tactics of rescaling poverty and prosperity which are embedded in processes of empowerment and disempowerment.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

University of Oxford

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • London
  • urban planning
  • dystopia
  • urban regeneration
  • Brussels

Status

Published

Supervisor

  • Eric Swyngedouw

Defence date

15 November 2002

Defence time

13:15

Defence place

Oxford

Opponent

  • Mark Boyle