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Seven Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg
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Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg
Abstract
This chapter discusses the novel planning measures that have been used to encourage social encounter and social mix in the new-build district of HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany. HafenCity is the largest redevelopment project in Europe; when complete, it will double the size of Hamburg’s central city or downtown area. The CEO of HafenCity has developed a complex agenda for social mix in HafenCity; this includes tenurial mixing, functional mixing (e.g. commercial and residential) and a mixing of social groups (by age, ethnicity, identity, cycle in life course, etc). The chapter outlines the vision for social mixing in HafenCity — where it came from, how it was conceptualised and the forms of governance and funding that were needed to put it in place. Moreover, HafenCity has undertaken its own research to investigate the successes and failures of its social mix agenda — the initial results from this research are discussed. And finally, the chapter outlines lessons to be learnt from ‘planning urbanity’ in HafenCity.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the novel planning measures that have been used to encourage social encounter and social mix in the new-build district of HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany. HafenCity is the largest redevelopment project in Europe; when complete, it will double the size of Hamburg’s central city or downtown area. The CEO of HafenCity has developed a complex agenda for social mix in HafenCity; this includes tenurial mixing, functional mixing (e.g. commercial and residential) and a mixing of social groups (by age, ethnicity, identity, cycle in life course, etc). The chapter outlines the vision for social mixing in HafenCity — where it came from, how it was conceptualised and the forms of governance and funding that were needed to put it in place. Moreover, HafenCity has undertaken its own research to investigate the successes and failures of its social mix agenda — the initial results from this research are discussed. And finally, the chapter outlines lessons to be learnt from ‘planning urbanity’ in HafenCity.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures and photographs v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities 1
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Reflections on social mix policy
- Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal 17
- Social mix and urban policy 25
- Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK 35
- Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia 43
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Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times
- Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification 53
- Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg 69
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Social mix policies and gentrification
- Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus 95
- Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris 115
- Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne 133
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The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies
- Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth? 151
- Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification – a view from Brussels 169
- ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city 185
- HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims 209
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Experiencing social mix
- The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing 233
- Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research 251
- From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto’s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power 273
- Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands 299
- Afterword 319
- References 323
- Index 365
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables, figures and photographs v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities 1
-
Reflections on social mix policy
- Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal 17
- Social mix and urban policy 25
- Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK 35
- Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia 43
-
Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times
- Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification 53
- Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg 69
-
Social mix policies and gentrification
- Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus 95
- Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris 115
- Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne 133
-
The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies
- Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth? 151
- Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification – a view from Brussels 169
- ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city 185
- HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims 209
-
Experiencing social mix
- The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing 233
- Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research 251
- From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto’s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power 273
- Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands 299
- Afterword 319
- References 323
- Index 365
