Friday, 15 March 2013

INVITATION TAKEN....HERE'S TO THE URBAN!



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).
Given the complexity of such manufactured structure on so small a plot, perhaps it might be too harsh to say that their policy was crisis. But, what this has done is, it has given planners an idea as to what not to do in the future; relax restrictions on buildings. It has given them an opportunity for restructuring.
Reference:
  1. 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. 128.

Saunders, John, Wong, Veronica and Saunders, Carolyne, The Research Evaluation and Globalization of Business Research (September 2011). British Journal of Management, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 401-419, 2011.






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