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Module Title
Urban Regeneration and Renewal
School
School of Geog Earth & Env Sci
Department
Geography
Module Code
07 02822
Module Lead
Dr Charles Goode
Level
Masters Level
Credits
20
Semester
Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
None
Exclusions
Description
This module provides a critical and creative reflection on contemporary urban regeneration possibilities and practice, with a grounding in the Birmingham-Sandwell canal corridor area.
The module approach aims to learn lessons from past experience, to consider the longer-term implications
of the pandemic, and to filter these through an understanding about the particularities of local
context, place and community. The ambition is that students can draw upon this to engage in
creative, grounded thinking about regeneration possibilities in our cities.
The module focus is about planning in the broadest sense, including not only visions and strategies
for change, but also aspects of delivery, collaborative working, community linkages, and facilitation.
The module engages with many of the tensions and balances that are integral to urban regeneration planning and practice: public-private relationships, cross-boundary working, the balance between top
down/bottom up approaches, the combination of new build development and organic renewal, the
focus on the local, the relationship of neighbourhoods to the wider city, especially nearby city
centres, and the challenge of integrating new housing and residents alongside existing communities.
The module is underpinned at all points by the imperatives of sustainable development. In this module,
the social and economic pillars of sustainable regeneration are particularly considered, and how these
can support and indeed facilitate action on environmental and climate change challenges.
Sustainable regeneration is by definition wide-ranging and diverse in its concerns, and so the module
incorporates several domains of spatial planning – housing, employment, green and blue
infrastructure, connectivity, health and well-being, local/neighbourhood centres and more. But all of
these are filtered through a focus on how these come together in particular types of urban places –
areas that are previously developed, complex, and closely entwined with the surrounding city fabric.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Explain the rationale for establishing urban regeneration and renewal as a form of public policy
Demonstrate an understanding of the policy context for urban regeneration and renewal and the principles that underpin successful urban regeneration and place-making
Apply key principles, knowledge of the current funding and policy landscape and place-making skills and techniques to the development of a creative but feasible funding bid proposal to a site on the Birmingham-Smethwick Canal Corridor.
Explain the potential that urban regeneration and renewal and place-making has for the improvement of the urban environment, quality of life, sustainability, and physical and mental well-being.
Exhibit team skills and an ability to work effectively with colleagues
Group presentation and pitch (30%) Funding Bid Proposal (70%)
Reassessment
Re-submission of the coursework assignments utilising the original sites and project briefs.
Other
Reading List
Hill, D (2000) Urban Policy and Politics in Britain, Macmillan, London
DCLG (2000) Our Towns and Cities: The Future, DETR
Imrie R and Raco M (eds.) (2003) Urban Renaissance: New Labour, Community, and Urban Policy, Bristol: The Policy Press,
Atkinson, R and Moon, G (1994) Urban Policy in Britain: the city,the state and the market, London, Macmillan
Cochrane A (2006) Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell
Oatley, N ed. (1998) Cities, Economic Competition and Urban Policy, Paul Chapman Publishing, London.
Roberts P and Sykes H (Eds.) (2000), Urban Regeneration: A Handbook, London: Sage
Jones P and Evans J (2008) Urban Regeneration in the UK, London: Sage
Diamond J and Liddle J (2005) The Management of Regeneration: Choices, Challenges and Dilemmas, Oxford: Routledge.
