Driver of competitiveness Requirements. Intervention built Urban models Obsolete Urban Functions Redesign of Functions Public Private PPP Tools Instruments Competitive Advantage Decline Stabilization

1.Renewal 2. Redevelopment 3. Regeneration 4. Recover 5. Revitalisation 6. ‘Framework’ 7. Gentrification 8. ‘Restructuring’ Urban models

Speakers Geographer Sociologist Urban Planner Political scientist Economist Bryn Jones Steve Miles Cliff Hague Simon Guy Mike Raco

Cliff Hague

no rapid urbanization but implosion urban planning (what do we consider about urban planning)?

Steve Miles

rhetorical device? inclusion/exclusion cultural or creative city are buzz-words or evident phenomenon?

It is absolutely essential that social theory does not degenerate into meaningless rhetoric. Globalization is a good example of how a particular theoretical perspective has become a sociological buzz-word. The buzz-word is the adversary of reflexive social theory. More phenomenon are create from buzz-word more than the evidence ?

Bryn Jones

process of participation networks of governance’ multi lateral-governance multi-purpose

Simon Guy

sustainable urban future The notion of models is often used in an over deterministic way models are often used into reality though physical planning and design policies private finance and investiment into urban regeneration investitors are only interested in institutional property and buildings

Mike Raco

What is PPP? What type of subjects is possible find inside PPP Are PPP ‘voluntarist’ partnership What types of: a) target; b) budget; c) agreements; d) procedures; e) founds; f) estate etc. do they join?

The study demonstrates how the association, which consisted of local businesses, tried to influence the local regeneration programmes The paper looks at the difficulties of constructing local community participation and concludes that voluntarist, top-down partnership structures in existing policy may only serve to legitimate and implement policy decisions taken by powerful non locally-accountable regeneration agencies Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (CBDC and how its ‘progrowth’ stance was actively used by the CBDC to legitimate its own policies in the face of wider criticisms from local residential groups.