Print Email Facebook Twitter Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects (draft version) Part of: International conference on Neighbourhood Restructuring & Resident Location: Context, Choice and Consequence· list the conference papers Title Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects (draft version) Author Van Kempen, R. Date 2010-11-04 Abstract The existence of deprived urban areas triggers many governments to change the physical and social structure of these areas. Sometimes policies are meant to change the area itself, in other cases the policies are meant to improve the situation of the residents. Urban restructuring policies change the deprived urban areas, usually because low-rent dwellings are replaced by more upmarket alternatives. But the policies also affect the inhabitants: some have to move away and find a new place somewhere else in the city or the region. It is often expected that the movement will lead to a better situation for the displaced persons and households. However, there are also severe doubts about these positive effects. Who really profits? Is there a risk that the displaced re-cluster in certain urban areas? What do they miss when they are forced to move to an area far from where they used to live? So while urban policy makers often stress the positive effects attached to urban restructuring, research has indicated that negative issues will not be absent. In this paper I will give an overview of the possible positive and negative effects of relocations as a consequence of urban restructuring. I will focus on the households that have to move away from the restructured area. The main conclusion will be that there are definitely positive effects of urban restructuring policies for forced movers, but negative side-effects should not be under-estimated. I will base my argument on existing research in the field of urban restructuring and neighbourhood effects, as well as on recent fieldwork data from the Netherlands. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e7d21d70-fd13-4fdd-a5fc-9fdcff21fedd Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Van Kempen, R. Files PDF Kempen_Reconsidering_Relo ... 31_okt.pdf 659.38 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e7d21d70-fd13-4fdd-a5fc-9fdcff21fedd/datastream/OBJ/view