Assembling individual pieces of land into large parcels for public purposes often involves the use of eminent domain, including when the assembled land is passed into private hands. Questions of equity and efficiency arise. Firstly, the US and other Constitutions require that owners of compulsorily-acquired property receive ‘just’ compensation. As existing owners are likely to value their prope...

The beated controversy over "citizen participation," "citizen conuol," and "maximum feasible involvement of the poor," has been waged largely in ( enDS of exacerbated rhetoric and misleading euphemislDS. To encourage a more enlightened dialogue, a typology of citizen participation is offered using examples from three federal social programs: urban renewal. antipoverty, and Model Cities. The typ...

Sustainability is observed in many aspects and elements of traditional Iranian architecture, plannerand landscape architecture, and this method was used to solve many problems for many countries. The aim of thisarticle is to achieve a sustainable approach in planning urban renewal projects to identify the relationship betweenurban design considerations and the sustainable development objectives...

“In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners, both public and private, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children wi...

For many years the urban renewal approach of Rotterdam, executed during the period 19751993, served as an example on the national and international level. With this approach a process of revitalization was initiated, which meant that the urban fabric and building supply had to adapt to changing conditions and accommodate new demands. Due to large financial and social investments in Rotterdam, a...

this paper examines the structure and form of the alley spaces in kampala central businessdistrict, with purpose to examine their uses, and the potential for urban renewal. the study employed multiplemethodological approaches and procedures including document review, case study approaches and analysis anddeduction of empirical findings, and explanation building. the study findings reveal that a...

The paper is dusted to an evaluation methodology for urban renewal plans. A central rol e is played by the concept of supply profil es of urban facilities. Urban renewal is considered to be a qualitative improvement of these profil es. Many urban renewal plans are characterized by the availability of soft (ordinal or qualitative) information. Therefore, the paper gives an overview óf soft muUi ...

Deteriorated urban textures are areas of a city isolated from developmental life cycle. They have turned into the focus of problems and inefficiencies. The evaluation of renewal actions claims to promote residents’ satisfaction in some cases. At the same time of improving objective and economic quality of life, there are claims regarding the lack of any improvements in their subjective quality ...

A recently completed study 1 supported by a Social Security Administration research grant examined the economic, social, and psychological impact of forced relocation upon families displaced by urban renewal. A secondary purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of a local urban renewal agency in mitigating some of the negative effects anticipated in the relocation process. The presence of two ...