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Revisions of the city: Boston's lessons in urban redevelopment from the top-down to bottom-up, 1950-present

Hoffman, J; (2007) Revisions of the city: Boston's lessons in urban redevelopment from the top-down to bottom-up, 1950-present. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

This report focuses on three specific areas of Boston: the former West End, the former Scollay Square, and Roxbury demonstrating the possibilities of a "bottom-up" approach to urban redevelopment, led by counterpublics, and the circumstance that fostered top-down renewal prior to this. Furthermore, through the examination of Herbert Gans, Jane Jacobs, and Kevin Lynch a historiographical narrative develops, emphasizing the semantics of urban regeneration. A debate surfaces in the text-whose model of what constitutes a city is the most credible My aim is to reflect on the dangers of wholesale urban renewal practices, while considering critical and academic involvement with a kind of urbanism that does not adequately address acute kinds of difference (race, class, etc.) in establishing specific "images of the city."

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Title: Revisions of the city: Boston's lessons in urban redevelopment from the top-down to bottom-up, 1950-present
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Thesis digitised by ProQuest. Third party copyright material has been removed from the ethesis. Images identifying individuals have been redacted or partially redacted to protect their identity.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570264
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