TY - JOUR

T1 - Restructuring Old Industrial and Inner Urban Areas

T2 - A Contrastive Analysis of State Policies in Great Britain and Germany

AU - Danielzyk, Rainer

AU - Wood, Gerald

PY - 1993/1/1

Y1 - 1993/1/1

N2 - This paper deals with two outstanding forms of state intervention devised to cope with structural change in old industrial areas: Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) in Great Britain and the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the Ruhr district in Germany. In Sections 2 and 3, we deal with UDCs and the IBA separately, concentrating on their history, objectives, modes of operation, financial arrangements, and their relationship with other local and state agencies. Furthermore, these two policies are related to the general political and social situation in Britain and Germany. In Section 4, we compare the IBA with UDCs directly, discussing whether these schemes can be considered a success with regard to their own objectives. Of particular importance is the role of the local level and the opportunity for various actors, interest * groups and public bodies to participate in the process of restructuring. Finally, we reflect upon the implications for planning in general emanating from the IBA and UDCs, One important result of our research is that the very broad approach behind the IBA—despite certain inherent contradictions—will do more justice to the multifaceted problems of old industrial areas than the concept of ‘regeneration’ behind UDCs.

AB - This paper deals with two outstanding forms of state intervention devised to cope with structural change in old industrial areas: Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) in Great Britain and the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the Ruhr district in Germany. In Sections 2 and 3, we deal with UDCs and the IBA separately, concentrating on their history, objectives, modes of operation, financial arrangements, and their relationship with other local and state agencies. Furthermore, these two policies are related to the general political and social situation in Britain and Germany. In Section 4, we compare the IBA with UDCs directly, discussing whether these schemes can be considered a success with regard to their own objectives. Of particular importance is the role of the local level and the opportunity for various actors, interest * groups and public bodies to participate in the process of restructuring. Finally, we reflect upon the implications for planning in general emanating from the IBA and UDCs, One important result of our research is that the very broad approach behind the IBA—despite certain inherent contradictions—will do more justice to the multifaceted problems of old industrial areas than the concept of ‘regeneration’ behind UDCs.

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U2 - 10.1080/09654319308720205

DO - 10.1080/09654319308720205

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0003210657

VL - 1

SP - 123

EP - 147

JO - European planning studies

JF - European planning studies

SN - 0965-4313

IS - 2

ER -