Examples Of Urban Renewal

969 Words4 Pages

The emergence of Urban renewal in developing countries has been witnessed as a response to shifting expectations that abandoned and blighted urban buildings, be repaired and reused, rather than being demolished () explores. However in the developing countries urban decay did not take places the same way that it happens in developed countries, because developments in developed countries happen in a much higher rate than developments in developing countries. In another sense even the location of the country matters because in Africa developments take place at a slower rate than in most continents as it is still under-developed. The following are the examples of how urban decay and Urban Renewal took place in developing countries. In the context of Shenzhen, urban renewal refers to the comprehensive improvement, functional renovations or demolition and reconstruction works, which are carried out in urban built-up areas the author explores. Sustainable Urban Renewal (SUR) aims at improving the physical, social, economic and ecological aspects of blighted urban areas through various actions, this includes redevelopment, rehabilitation, and renovation().
In developing countries, social inequality tends to produce slums and spatial ghettos of poverty, furthermore there a huge housing demand which comes mainly from low income householders. Due to the social aim of generating affordable housing for poor segments of the society in those contexts, redevelopment and Urban Renewal tends

Open Document