Brownfield regeneration: Towards strengthening social cohesion?

STRENGTHENING SOCIAL COHESION IN KOREA Assessment and Recommendations

The social embeddedness of brownfield regeneration actors: Insights from social networks analysis

Stakeholder involvement in land management has been considered in both normative and analytical terms, but often in an undifferentiated way. The article aims to compare these two perspectives by proposing, first, a mixed methods approach consisting of semistructured interviews and social network analysis. Second, it explores a social network of stakeholders by inductively developing and illustr...

Brownfield regeneration – imperative for sustainable urban development

The possibility of revitalization of abandoned or insufficiently used industrial and commercial facilities and areas in towns, known as brownfield incentives, is analyzed in the paper. These facilities and areas are most often situated in central parts of towns, and their revitalisation results in creation of new facilities which often become symbols or landmarks of such towns. The meaning of b...

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Redrawing the Boundaries of Expertise

In order to enhance the ‘sustainability’ of brownfield urban regeneration it is increasingly argued that there needs to be a wholesale re-drawing of the boundaries of expertise. The original objectives of the sustainable development discourses included the idea that powers and responsibilities should be devolved away from professionals, bureaucrats, engineers, and scientists and given to empowe...

Social Cohesion

Investigators interested in developing a general theory of social cohesion are confronted with a complex body of work that involves various definitions of social cohesion, specialized literatures on particular dimensions of social cohesion (e.g., membership turnover, organizational commitment, categorical identifications, interpersonal attachments, network structures), and lines of inquiry focu...