Update 26 March

Here's a small update on the progress of our work.
Three weeks ago we went to Antwerp for some fieldwork in our area: Eilandje. It was a very useful and productive day. We mainly walked around and talked to a lot of people there; semi-structured interviews. This helped us form an idea about the regeneration project in the Eilandje area. The average opinion of the people there was that the restructuring took long, but that it would be for the better in the end. We found out some pretty interesting things about how supply and demand can drive up the costs of land by talking to a real estate agent. All in all it was a good day.

This Wednesday we will visit the Kop van Zuid area in Rotterdam, to compare the restructuring programme there to the one in Antwerp.

Today we finished our literature review. These are the sources that we are planning to use so far:

Sources on Neoliberal cities & wealth creation

The Neoliberal City. Retrieved from: http://www.learningsite.info/NeoTrashing.pdf --This can be read as an   introduction to neoliberalism and its effects, it contains basic information and several short essays by known researchers. Main focus on Chicago

Hackworth, J., R. (2007).The neoliberal city: governance, ideology, and    development in American urbanism. Cornell University Press.  – Very     useful, contains all information about neoliberalism, from beginning to   effects of today.

Leitner, H., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., S. (2007). Contesting neoliberalism: urban    frontiers. Guildford press. – focus on the negative aspects of neoliberalism.    Done by several papers on neoliberal cities by various authors.

Wacquant, L. (2008). Relocating gentrification: the working class, science and   the state in recent urban research. International Journal of Urban and      Regional Retrieved from: loicwacquant.net – Wiley online library

Brenner, N., Theodore, N. (????). Preface: From the “New Localism” to the          Spaces of Neoliberalism. Retrieved from:           http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/222/Brenner_and_Theodore_Preface       _2002.pdf - Main focus lies on the ‘new locality’ in cities.

Gough, J. (2002). Neoliberalism and socialization in the contemporary city:        opposites, complements and instabilities. Antipode - Wiley Online Library

Achterhuis, H. (2010). De Utopie van de Vrije Markt. Lemniscaat, Rotterdam.

Van Rossen, M. (2011). Kapitalisme zonder remmen: de Opkomst en Ondergang         van het Fundamentalisme. Nieuw Amsterdam

Badcock, B. (2002). Making Sense of Cities: A geographical survey. Geography of Wealth Creation: p. 61-94.

LeGates, R. (2011). The City Reader. p193/p251/p283

Sources on Eilandje

Tasan-Kok, T. (????) Complexities of multi-level governance in Antwerp: Case of Het Eilandje project.

Tasan-Kok, T (2008) Entrepeneurial Governance: Challenges of Large-Scale Property-Led Urban Regeneration Projects.

Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Antwerpen Stroomlijnen

Buro 5 Architecten (2000) Project Plan ‘t Eilandje

Stad Antwerpen (2008) Eilandje Information  Booklet

Sources on Kop van Zuid

Jaap van den Bout, Erik Pasveer (1999) Kop van Zuid – Restructuring plans

Wilkens c.s., Piotr Ostojski Ostoja, Riek Bakker (2000) Kop van Zuid 2 – Restructuring plans