Steven Tiesdell

Revitalising Historic Urban Quarters

Revitalizing historic urban quarters Economic challenge of historic urban quarters Re-evaluation of the qualities of historic urban quarters Tourism and culture-led revitalization Housing-led revitalization Revitalizing industrial and commercial quarters Design in historic urban quarters Towards the successful revitalization of historic urban quarters Bibliography Index.

Supporting Ethnic Minority Business: A Review of Business Support for Ethnic Minorities in City Challenge Areas

In England, the use of targeted training and employment initiatives directed at particular localities, particular sectors of the local economy or particular social groups characterised both mainstream urban regeneration initiatives of the early and mid-1990s, such as Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs), and special urban regeneration initiatives, such as City Challenge and the Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund (SRBCF). This paper focuses specifically on business support for ethnic minority groups in City Challenge areas.

Beyond 'fortress' and 'panoptic' cities—towards a safer urban public realm

In this paper we present a perspective on approaches to enhancing the feeling of safety in the urban public realm. Many planning and urban design responses to concerns about a lack of safety in city centres seem often to have led to the ‘fortress’ city and/or the ‘panoptic’ city. These are repressive and oppressive, socially divisive and exclusive, and deny the citys inhabitants a richer urban experience. We suggest more positive ways of making city centres feel safer. We start by discussing the concept of the urban public realm, then briefly review crime and incivilities, and outline the spectres of the fortress city and the panoptic city. In the remainder of the paper we discuss positive strategies for safer city centres. By doing so, we seek to offer a resistance to the tendencies towards fortress and panoptic cities. The paper is aimed primarily at those concerned with the design and management of the urban public realm, such as local authorities, planners, urban designers, and city-centre managers. There is also a wider audience that includes retailers, city-centre property owners, the police, and others with interests in the city centre. Although many of the issues have universal applicability, the focus here is on English provincial cities.

The Fortress, the panoptic, the regulatory and the animated: planning and urban design approaches to safer city centres

Abstract This paper discusses planning and urban design approaches to making city centres feel safer. Planning and urban design inter alia contribute to the creation of the city‐centre landscape and are intimately concerned with the design and management of public space. Perceptions and feelings of personal safety are prerequisites for a vital and viable city centre; if a city centre is not perceived to be safe, those with choice will choose not to use it, making it less safe for those with fewer choices. This paper therefore identifies and outlines four planning and urban design approaches to making city centres feel safer: the fortress, the panoptic, the regulatory and the animated.

Safer Cities for Women

This chapter is based on the findings of the Home Office Safer Cities Projects and a series of interactive meetings organised by the authors at the University of Nottingham, bringing together women’s groups and planning officers. The first objective was to make those responsible for transport and land-use planning aware of how seriously women’s use of town centres and access to work and leisure was affected by the fear of attack. The second objective was to explore with women’s groups their response to some of the planning remedies that are being proposed to make the environment less conducive to crime or to insulate women from their effects.