PLAN261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Community Benefits Agreement, Thames Gateway, China–Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
Document Summary
The fourth lecture of the course focused on mega-projects and urban development. A mega project is defined as a costly scheme for the development of a contiguous area that may take several years to implement and includes a transformation of land uses. David harvey has wrote about the shift in urban governance from the managerial approach to a more entrepreneurial approach. First, new entrepreneurialism has public private partnerships to fund urban developments, these partnerships are speculative in design and promote inter-urban competition. Urban governance is now attempting to bring business capital into the town and to create a good business climate. Urban entrepreneurialism contributes to growing wealth disparities as it encourages activities that raise property values and grow employment. Several case studies were then examined to illustrate different urban development methods. The first was state collaborative design which was used for the suzhou industrial. State collaborative development was also used on the uk-france channel.
