Regional Development Agencies and Physical Regeneration in England: Can RDAs Deliver the Urban Renaissance?

摘要

The 'urban renaissance', as espoused by the Urban Task Force, seeks to encourage people to move back into towns and cities by creating the quality of life and vitality that will make living in urban areas desirable once more. To counter the pervasive culture of anti-urbanism and the legacy of decades of sub-urbanisation and car-based planning, the Task Force's report, Towards an Urban Renaissance (DETR, 1998), sets out a blueprint for the development of cities as places where people want to live. To bring people back from the suburbs and to breath life into decaying inner cities, the report sets out a vision for the sustainable regeneration of our towns and cities through making them compact, multi-centered, live/work, socially-mixed, well designed, connected and environmentally sustainable. It puts on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield land in our cities before encroaching on the countryside. (Rogers, 2002)