Birmingham's Eastside story: Making steps towards sustainability?
- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Local Environment
- Vol. 10 (5), 525-542
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830500203337
Abstract
Sustainability has come to play a dominant discursive role in the UK planning system, particularly relating to urban regeneration. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role that sustainability plays in a major regeneration programme, known as Eastside, currently underway in Birmingham, the UK. That this £6 billion redevelopment is now widely talked about by such key players as Birmingham City Council and the Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, as having a central sustainability agenda points to the growing importance of the ideal of sustainability in planning and regeneration agendas. In this paper, we investigate in detail how and why sustainability has become part of the planning discourse for Eastside and critically evaluate what impact, if any, this is having on public policy decision-making.Keywords
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