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| Regenerated home makes mix use, Tunapuna |
The
clock does not stop in the urban! It is reset! Economic forces within the
Tunapuna area are source of urban change and they have played a great deal in
shaping the not only the landscape but the lives of those who live within it.
Regeneration
intervention has typically involved a series of discretionary funding
programmes, operating in parallel to, although often seeking to influence, the
activities of ‘mainstream’ public service delivery (Tyler, 2012).
I evidence
from investigations about the Tunapuna for example, that there were many houses
along the Eastern Main Road that were mundane and very dilapidated. As such,
the government decided to revamp the area in order to help meet the challenge
of the century. By this, they gave the leading development initiatives through
the use of incentives such as relaxing tax burdens and local planning
restrictions.
This
drive completely improved the aesthetics of the area Honeestly, it does. I feel really grand when walking along an area such as this on my way eastward to the market. Although many new
buildings were not created, those that already existed were brought up to a
certain standard. This was done attract private sector investment and improve
the economic dynamism of Tunapuna.
So,
this created what impacts on the urban? This policy has has on a large scale
made an impression the urban problems that the urban faces; while the area had
become more prosperous, many problems such as unemployment still remained. Some
buildings for example, the one shown above, have been overworked and thus do do
look as refurbished as it should. Here, this building for example serves as a
barbershop and hair salon, a school and as house.
This
approach created jobs created safeguarded through intervention but in
relatively low-skilled occupations. The school on the other hand is privately
owned and expensive and thus does not provide for a wide range of consumers
living in the immediate community.There are daunting methodological problems in
identifying robust causal links between interventions, programmes and policies
and desired outcomes. . The processes linking funding allocations, policy
priorities, mechanisms and effects are likely to be indirect, hard to identify
and even harder to measure. Hence the problem of attribution— i.e. the
difficulty in identifying the extent to which a particular intervention has
created a specific outcome (Saunders et al., 2011).
Reference:
- Tyler P. (2005) Assessing the effect of area-based initiatives on local area outcomes: some thoughts based on the national evaluation of the Single Regeneration Budget in England, Urban Studies, 42(11), pp. 1–28.
Well done, and great pic.
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