The Urban Regeneration Engine Model: An analytical framework and case study of the renewal of old communities

Tiyan Shen, Xinyi Yao and Fenghua Wen

Land Use Policy, 2021, vol. 108, issue C

Abstract: The regeneration of old residential areas in China is facing a complex trap involving all kinds of stakeholders. On the one hand, ambiguous property rights, huge infrastructure investment arrears, and strict urban planning regulations make it challenging for market forces and social capital to enter the field of regeneration of old residential areas. On the other hand, the lack of an effective urban governance and social mobilization system leads to governance failures in the regeneration process. To break out of the above traps theoretically and practically, we construct an analytical framework called the Urban Regeneration Engine Model, in which the city government and the urban regeneration operator act as dual engines of urban regeneration. This dual engine drives the increase in social capital in the regeneration process and promotes the participation of the government, enterprises, residents, social organizations, and financial institutions. The positive feedback that comes from social capital increase further diversifies the fundraising sources, reduces the governance cost, and promotes the sustainable development of the community. Taking the Jinsong Community, one of the earliest residential communities in Beijing after the reform and opening up, as an example, this paper shows that the Urban Regeneration Engine Model provides a feasible and effective model for the regeneration of old residential areas in China and other developing countries facing similar problems.

Keywords: Urban Regeneration Engine Model (UREM); Urban regeneration operator; Old residential area; Social capital; Partnerships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105571

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