- Reviving brownfields into living Workplaces: technopôle angus and trefil arbed   71 kb by    Van Dyck, Barbara & Verhetsel, Ann | barbara.vandyck@ua.ac.be    Short Outline Added value creation in two regeneration projects in Montreal and Gent, is explored. It is analyzed what resources have been mobilized, which strategies have been deployed for that purpose, and consequently what and whose added values were realized. Abstract Strategic projects throughout the world are realized by all kinds of partnerships between public, private, semi-public and civil society parties. These partnership settings for the planning and implementation of projects are supposed to realize win-situations for all stakeholders. Observations from international case study research however, frequently reveal that large scale redevelopment projects result in overspending of resources, in which public sector often tends to underwrite substantial amounts of risks and cover losses whilst the private partners are likely to accrue most benefits (Heinz 1994, Moulaert et al.2003). Other projects based on the selective involvement of stakeholder are blamed for accordingly selective results (Elander 2002). Some projects though are more successful in the realization of local spatial, cultural, economic, social and institutional benefits or added values. We assume that these projects are more successful in that regard as they are place sensitive modes of intervention. This implies that they are based on strategies that articulate a coherent spatial logic, which are constructed with local knowledge, informed by the particular circumstances on the ground, and delivered through multisectoral, horizontal networks crossing functional boundaries or program silos. The paper uses a framework of added value creation, based on resource mobilization and value attribution, for the analysis of two strategic regeneration projects, the Angus Technopolis (Montreal) and Trefil Arbed (Ghent). Both projects specifically aimed at realizing a site for the location of small and medium sized enterprises embedded in and benefiting the existing working class neighborhoods surrounding the site. Therefore they aimed at diversity in accessibility through the realization of a site contributing to a plural economy and other measures to improve local benefits. Through interviews, literature and document review, and on the ground facts it is analyzed what resources have been mobilized, which strategies have been deployed for that purpose, and consequently what and whose added values were realized. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2007: Urban Trialogues   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper