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Urban Renewal / Residents' Participation
Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Niels Andersen, Director: MA (Political Science) Danish Urban Regeneration
Society
20 Feb 2001 3rd Lecture
Review by Adrian Welch Niels took us through Copenhagen's residential
areas one by one: the images were backed up by numerous facts and figures.
Niels had worked for many years at trying to involve local residents and
their tenants' associations in regeneration of their urban communities.
Compared to the first of the 'Tuesday Lectures' this was more like being
back at school with reels of overhead-projected tables and bullet points.
The Copenhagen we saw was a less glamorous one than previous talks organised
by the Danish Cultural Institute, and we got a real taste of the problems
in regenerating Copenhagen's social housing. Much of the direction was
similar to Scotland's experience - empowerment, privatisation, budget
reduction ('cuts'), and bottom-up improvement - but much was unfamiliar.
The tenant's structures and right-to-buy schemes sounded interesting compared
to our fractured 'right-to-buy' policy dating from the eighties, and the
overview of different areas showed different urban regeneration solutions.
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