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Urban renaissance

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Many American cities have seen at least a modest bounce in interest in core cities and older neighborhoods in recent years with a special emphasis on condominium projects, often in formerly non-residential structures. In the United States, efforts to revitalise urban areas often involve ideas of
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towns which had "enjoyed the conditions for creating wealth in the coal-powered 19th-century are often poorly positioned today" which meant they would necessarily have to accept lower wages to attract economic opportunities. The report recommended that residents move to London and
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Urban renaissance deals with the negative impact of major factors driving change in urban areas such as technical revolution, ecological threat and social transformation. A number of initiatives were put in place, including tax incentives, the lifting of some
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The beginnings of an urban renaissance? Recent migration flows into and out of English cities, as revealed in a new study, just may be the glimmerings of a new pro-urban movem...
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instead, and thus that the government should focus its home-building efforts there. The report was criticised by a number of British politicians from all three
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in order to attract visitors who live in suburbs. The word 'renaissance' was used by some cities in the USA in a similar period. For example, the city of
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argued that regeneration policies in general were of little use, saying the inescapable issue was that
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This article is about the United Kingdom. For land redevelopment to address urban decay, see
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restrictions, as well as state incentives encouraging business and residents back into
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and derelict industrial sites have often been the focus of regeneration '
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project have helped to encourage people back into the city, assisted by
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areas. Redundant land, such as 17th and 18th-century canals and docks,
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Cities considered to have gone through an urban renaissance include
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was a policy aim for England introduced from 1999 to address
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of many British cities, following a period of widespread
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Index

Urban renewal
Urban Renaissance Agency

urban decline
regeneration
inner city
urban decay
suburbanisation
Birmingham
Bristol
Cardiff
Glasgow
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
London
New Urbanism
urban planning
city centre
railway yards
urban renewal companies
regional development agencies
London Docklands
gentrification
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downtown
city centre
art

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