Definition
Urban regeneration refers to the extent to which a community’s capacity matches the territory’s conditions for reversing urban decline and aiming at an overall development of the community.
Introduction
Urban regeneration has been fertile ground for the governance debate. Research on urban regeneration focuses on the degree to which a community individual’s capacity matches the territory’s conditions and resources existing in a specific environment, as well as the values (cultural, economic, and social) and the organizational system (based on formal and informal rules) that enable the adoption of regeneration schemes. A number of questions remain about the effectiveness of regeneration schemes whose attempt is to reverse any form of decline by both improving the physical structure and the economy of territorial areas.
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Ricciardelli, A. (2017). Governance and Urban Regeneration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3220-1
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