Vision and reality

Community involvement in Irish urban regeneration

Bibliographic Data

ID6326532
AuthorsJenny Muir (Queen's University Belfast), Mary Lee Rhodes (0000-0002-7441-5810, Trinity College Dublin)
Year2008
Volume36
Issue4
Pages497-520
Publication date2008-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/147084408x349756
OpenAlexW2013830033
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This article examines the processes and outcomes of community involvement in six Irish urban regeneration case studies, three in Dublin and three in Belfast. The findings are part of a wider study using a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective to analyse public sector decision making. Key points included: (1) the community ‘vision’ of the regeneration as an emergent property, which converged towards the vision held by the implementing agencies in the four most successful programmes; and (2) the identification of three features that contribute to non-linear (unpredictable) behaviour: a history of community involvement; the availability of resources; and the intervention of key individuals at crisis points

Environmental planning · Geography · Identification (biology · Intervention (counseling · Irish · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Regeneration (biology · Urban regeneration · Community Development and Social Impact · Computer Science · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Valuation

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