El distrito cultural y creativo del Digbeth (Birmingham, Reino Unido) y sus planes de regeneración urbana
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Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio el distrito cultural y creativo del Digbeth, situado en Birmingham, Reino Unido. Su principal objetivo es analizar los procesos de regeneración urbana y los diferentes planes propuestos por diferentes entes con la finalidad de rehabilitar y revitalizar el área.
Para ello, se han usado diferentes técnicas de recolección de datos, como las entrevistas en profundidad, en las que se siguió el esquema de preguntas desarrollado por Charmaz y Belgrave (2014); la revisión bibliográfica tanto de fuentes primarias como secundarias y la observación participante, con carácter de observador completo.
Como resultado, se realiza un escrupuloso análisis de los planes de regeneración urbana que el Ayuntamiento de la Birmingham plantea vinculados a la zona del Eastside, en la que se encuentra el Digbeth, como son el Big City Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2011), el Birmingham Development Plan 2031 (Birmingham City Council, 2017) y planes específicos para la remodelación para el área, como el Curzon Investment Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2016). Igualmente, se consideran, analizan y detallan los diferentes planes de regeneración desarrollados por iniciativas privadas como Oval Real Estate para el Digbeth, así como las visiones estrategias y las propuestas específicas de regeneración del área.
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