Cities on Rails : The Redevelopment of Railway Stations and their Surroundings.

Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Railway station area redevelopment in the spotlight -- 1.1 Cities on rails: an introduction -- 1.2 Driving forces behind railway station area redevelopment -- 1.2.1 Two distinct types of public policy -- 1.2.2 Positive and negative technological change -- 1.2.3 Institutional change -- 1.2.4 The property cycle -- 1.2.5 Internationalization and metropolitanization -- 1.3 Organization of the book -- 2 The railway station as node and place -- 2.1 Nodes and places -- 2.2 Nodes of networks -- 2.3 Places in the city: defining and delimitating the station as place -- 2.4 On the interaction of node and place: railway stations, airports and seaports -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Nodes -- 2.4.3 Places -- 2.4.4 Nodes and place -- 2.4.5 Towards a conclusion -- 3 What makes the development potential of a railway station location? -- 3.1 The transport development perspective: the node -- 3.1.1 A railway renaissance? -- 3.1.2 An unfavourable context -- 3.1.3 An organization in transition -- 3.1.4 Strengths and weakness of railway transport -- Capitalizing on strengths -- Overcoming weaknesses -- 3.1.5 Development prospects 1: commuter trains and intra-metropolitan mobility -- 3.1.6 Development prospects 2: high-speed trains and inter-metrop mobility -- 3.1.7 Implications for station area development -- 3.2 The property development perspective: the place -- 3.2.1 Setting station locations in their urban context -- Context II: in which city? -- Context II: where in the city? -- 3.2.2 Developing station locations -- The accessibility issue -- 3.2.3 Strengths and weaknesses of station locations: an open issue -- 3.3 Towards an integrated transport-property perspective -- 3.3.1 Defining the matter -- 3.3.2 The Japanese example: an ideal-typical case?.

3.3.2 Towards a typology of possibilities -- 4 How to realize the potential? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The institutional conditions -- 4.2.1 The national planning systems -- 4.2.2 Pressures from institutional conditions -- Deregulation -- Constraints on public expenditure -- A shift from social objectives towards primarily economic and secondarily environmental objectives -- The rise (and fall) of public-private partnerships -- The emerging centrality of infrastructure investment -- Centralizing and decentralizing tendencies in national policy making -- 4.3 Actors involved in the process -- 4.4 Railway station redevelopment: the starting point for analysis -- 5 Euralille -- 5.1 Preamble: the national planning system -- 5.2 Context: railway station area redevelopment in France -- 5.3 Euralille as node and place -- 5.3.1 The node -- 5.3.2 The place -- 5.3.3 The process -- Phase 1: strategic decisions, 1986-1987 -- Phase 2: planning, 1988-1990 -- Phase 3: implementation, 1990-1995 -- 5.4 Property development at Euralille -- 5.4.1 Functions -- 5.4.2 Organization -- 5.4.3 Marketing -- 5.5 Euralille: evaluation -- 6 Utrecht Centrum Project and the Zuidas -- 6.1 Preamble: the national planning system -- 6.2 Context: railway station area redevelopment in the Netherlands -- 6.3 The Utrecht Centrum Project as node and place -- 6.3.1 The node -- 6.3.2 The place -- 6.3.3 The process -- UCP, first round: towards the master plan -- UCP, second round: the development company -- UCP, third round: the administrative platform -- 6.4 Property development at the Utrecht Centrum Project -- 6.4.1 Hoog Catharijne -- Master plan (1993) -- Spatial-functional concept (1995) -- 6.4.4 Solution guidelines (1996) -- 6.4.5 VSO (1997) -- 6.5 Utrecht Centrum Project: evaluation -- 6.6 The Zuidas as node and place -- 6.6.1 The node -- 6.6.2 The place -- 6.6.3 The process.

6.7 Property development at the Zuidas -- 6.7.1 Objectives -- 6.7.2 Programme -- 6.7.3 Urban design principles -- 6.7.4 Development strategy -- 6.7.5 Financial framework -- 6.8 The Zuidas: evaluation -- 7 Stockholm City West -- 7.1 Preamble: the national planning system -- 7.2 Context: railway station area redevelopment in Sweden -- 7.3 Stockholm Central station as node and place -- 7.3.1 The node -- 7.3.2 The place -- 7.3.3 The process -- The first phase: the Vasa Terminal-WTC, 1979-1989 -- The second phase: a congress centre, 1994-2004 -- 7.4 Property development at Stockholm City West -- 7.4.1 Background information: the reorganization and investment programmes of the Swedish railways -- 7.5 Stockholm City West: evaluation -- 8 Basel EuroVille and Zentrum Zürich Nord -- 8.1 Preamble: the national planning system -- 8.2 Context: railway station area redevelopment in Switzerland -- 8.3 Basel EuroVille as node and place -- 8.3.1 The node -- 8.3.2 The place -- 8.3.3 The process -- Phase 1: concept planning, 1983-1986 -- Phase 2: detailed planning, 1987-1991 -- Phases 3 and 4: operational planning, 1992-1995, and implementation, 1994-2005 -- 8.3.4 The actors involved -- 8.4 Property development at Basel EuroVille -- 8.4.1 Functions -- 8.4.2 Organization -- 8.4.3 Marketing -- 8.5 Basel EuroVille: evaluation -- 8.6 Zentrum Zürich Nord as node and place -- 8.6.1 The node -- 8.6.2 The place -- 8.6.3 The process -- Phase 1: from the initiative to the programme, 1988-1991 -- Phase 2: from the programme to the plan, 1992-1994 -- Phase 3: from the plan to the contracts, 1995-1996 -- 8.7 Property development at Zentrum Zürich Nord -- 8.7.1 The functional concept -- 8.7.2 The urban design and traffic concepts -- 8.7.3 The development concept -- 8.8 Zentrum Zürich Nord: evaluation -- 9 King's Cross railway lands -- 9.1 Preamble: the national planning system.

9.2 Context: railway station area redevelopment in the UK -- 9.3 King's Cross railway lands as node and place -- 9.3.1 The node -- 9.3.2 The place -- 9.3.3 The process -- The first round -- The second round -- 9.4 Property development at King's Cross railway lands -- 9.4.1 The first wave -- 9.4.2 The second wave -- 9.4.3 Land development -- 9.4.4 Transport development -- 9.5 King's Cross railway lands: evaluation -- 10 Conclusions -- 10.1 The redevelopment of railway station areas: its urgency and complexity -- 10.2 The characteristic dilemmas of station area redevelopment -- 10.2.1 Node and place, and the distinctive features of railway stat redevelopment -- A physical dilemma -- A functional dilemma -- A financial dilemma -- A temporal dilemma -- A management dilemma -- 10.3 Making it happen: building a capacity to act -- 10.4 Towards an agenda for research and practice: putting railway station locations in their urban-regional context -- References -- Index.