Metropolitics

Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?

Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine — 2019-05-03T05:00:00Z

By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes described as a neoliberal policy, favorable to land and property investors. But this interpretation, founded on the trauma of postwar urban policies, only tells part of the story when it comes to understanding contemporary urban renewal in the United States.
The policy of urban renewal implemented in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s came to symbolize the collusion of local

- Essays / working-class neighborhoods, working classes, urban renewal, United States, urban policy, capitalism, neoliberalism, demolition, Department of Housing and Urban Development, HOPE VI program

Estate Regeneration in London: Politics and Protest

Gerald Koessl — 2017-01-31T07:00:00Z

Gerald Koessl describes dilemmas facing social-housing providers in London, where social housing often serves as the only affordable housing in gentrifying, high-cost neighbourhoods, but is also increasingly in disrepair. He critically assesses the emphasis on densification as a solution, and describes recent resident-led protest movements. The situation has strong parallels with the HOPE VI program in the US, which we hope to explore in a future article.
The regeneration of social-housing

- From the Field / gentrification, housing policy, social housing, London, public housing, protest, HOPE VI program

The Design-Politics of American Public Housing

Sandra Parvu & Lawrence J. Vale — 2012-07-04T04:55:00Z

Lawrence J. Vale goes back to the early days of American history to discuss public housing policy in the US: he explores the ambivalence produced by the mix of moral stigmatization and social support present from the early policies through today's urban renewal and redevelopment.
Question 1.
Sandra Parvu: You are the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and you have widely researched housing policy in the United States. Two of

- Interviews / housing policy, social housing, public housing, HOPE VI program, video