The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: Urban regeneration, local economy and community

Rowley, Gwyn

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(94)90031-0

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“…Regeneration of London's Docklands, although successful in terms of the physical regeneration of a former industrial landscape, for example, failed to provide much housing that was affordable to lower-income people who had formerly lived in the area (see Goodwin, 1991;Brownill, 1999). Similar criticisms were levelled at Swansea's Maritime Quarter (Robinson and Williams, 1990), Bristol's dockland redevelopment (Punter, 1992) and the Cardiff Bay redevelopment (Rowley, 1994). Such criticisms in the early 1990s came at a time when mixed tenure became an 'explicit strategy' in British urban renewal policy (Kleinhans, 2004; see also Cole and Goodchild, 2000).…”

Section: Regeneration Policy and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

City Centre Regeneration through Residential Development: Contributing to Sustainability

2005

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Following a discussion of recent policies for the city centre in Britain, the paper explores the contribution of residential development to aspects of sustainability, drawing on a range of survey evidence in Bristol and Swansea. The residents are frequent shoppers, helping to sustain the local daytime economy. Sustainability goals are also supported because large proportions of residents walk to city centre attractions, and many also to their places of work, showing reduced reliance on the private car. Support for the expanding nighttime economy reflects the age, gender and social class composition of the resident population, with different attractions receiving different levels of support from different social groups, but with younger adults as the mainstay. Sustainability in the city centre context appears best served by a majority of young adult residents, ameliorated by a sizeable proportion of older adults, and an absence of households with children. Grandiose government sustainability aims of creating the truly balanced community which includes many children, should be modified in this local context.

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Section: Regeneration Policy and Housingmentioning

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City Centre Regeneration through Residential Development: Contributing to Sustainability

2005

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“…Both Darke (1995) and Miles (1997Miles ( , 1998, for example, criticize the involvement of artists in the of cial public art programme of Cardiff Bay Development Area, where the construction of a barrage as part of the regeneration process was predicted to result in serious damage to local wetland ecologies (Figure 2). Others have produced pessimistic assessments of the likely economic and social impacts of the Bay's development (Imrie et al, 1995;Rowley, 1994).…”

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Public Art and Urban Regeneration: Advocacy, claims and critical debates

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2001

Landscape Research

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“…Numerous community and environmental groups challenged the CBDC programme: for being unaccountable and autocratic; for giving little priority to local economic or social needs (Rowley, 1995); for the risks to health and property from the impounded water; and for the loss of wildlife habitat that the barrage would cause. The inter-tidal mud ats of the Taff-Ely Estuary had been designated as an SSSI for the number and diversity of wintering wildfowl and wading birds they supported, notably dunlin and redshank.…”

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Environmental Compensation and the Mediation of Environmental Change: Making Capital out of Cardiff Bay

Cowell¹

2000

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The scope for compensating for environmental loss or degradation with some form of balancing environmental gain (such as habitat creation) has attracted critical attention from conservationists and policy makers. However, it is increasingly apparent that concentrating on technical skills, and adopting a linear analytical framework, disguise the range of social processes at work. Engaging in environmental compensation is, almost inevitably, a process of considerable ecological, evaluative and institutional transformation. Moreover, taking increasing control of this process through detailed management may accelerate the transformation of nature into 'capital'. These arguments are developed through a case-study of Cardiff Bay, where the implementation of habitat creation compensating for the loss of inter-tidal mud flats became linked to the implementation of the European Habitats Directive, a policy lever which served to both intensify and rationalize these transformations.

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The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: Urban regeneration, local economy and community

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

City Centre Regeneration through Residential Development: Contributing to Sustainability

City Centre Regeneration through Residential Development: Contributing to Sustainability

Public Art and Urban Regeneration: Advocacy, claims and critical debates

Environmental Compensation and the Mediation of Environmental Change: Making Capital out of Cardiff Bay

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