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From community planning to partnership planning. Urban regeneration and shifting power relations on the South Bank, London

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Author

  • Guy Baeten

Summary, in English

This paper seeks to explain the persistence of inner-city deprivation in spite of sustained regeneration efforts, through demonstrating how urban regeneration policies are embedded in peculiar political-institutional power dynamics that actually contribute to the further disempowerment of the already disempowered groups in inner cities. The reconstruction of the post-war planning history of one specific urban neighbourhood, the South Bank in central London, will allow to demonstrate how the constantly reworked urban regeneration models comprise specific power relations that have important repercussions for the success and failure of regeneration programmes. The focus here will particularly be on how the fall of the South Bank's prominent era of community-based development in the 1970s is firmly embedded in changing political-institutional frameworks that, after a spell of `community power', were soon to restore the power of the local cultural, political and business elites over the local regeneration agenda.

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

293-300

Publication/Series

GeoJournal

Volume

51

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Human Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1572-9893