Urban Regeneration & Social Sustainability -- Contents -- The Authors -- Contributing Authors -- Foreword: Stanley McGreal -- Part I Social Sustainability and Urban Regeneration -- 1 Introduction -- Background and context -- Urban regeneration and social sustainability -- Aims and objectives -- Methodology for the research -- Case study selection -- Outline of the book -- 2 Social Sustainability and Sustainable Communities: Towards a Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- What is social sustainability? -- Traditional and emerging themes and dimensions -- Sustainable cities and communities -- Conclusions -- 3 Metrics and Tools for Social Sustainability -- Introduction -- Impact assessment and social sustainability assessment -- A brief overview of sustainability indicators and social sustainability tools -- Traditional social indicators versus emerging social sustainability indicators -- Conclusions -- 4 Urban Regeneration: Delivering Social Sustainability -- Introduction -- A question of definition -- Evolution of urban regeneration policy -- Responsible investment practices -- Institutional involvement in urban regeneration -- Partnership models -- Integrating and measuring social sustainability in urban regeneration -- Conclusions -- Part II Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe -- 5 Integrated Urban Regeneration and Sustainability: Approaches from the European Union -- Introduction -- The EU policy framework -- The Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund to 2006 -- The URBAN Community Initiative -- Structural Funds 2007-2013 -- Conclusions -- 6 The Future Regeneration of Roath Basin, Cardiff Bay -- Introduction -- Historic perspective -- Regeneration policy: Cardiff Bay -- Policy and context: Recent developments -- Regeneration of Roath Basin -- Conclusions -- 7 The Regeneration of La Mina - Sant Adriá de Besós -- Introduction.

Urban development and decline -- The policy context -- Urban regeneration and partnership arrangements -- Social sustainability -- Conclusions -- 8 The Regeneration of Turin and Porta Palazzo -- Introduction -- Urban development and decline -- The policy context -- Urban regeneration and partnership arrangements -- Social sustainability -- Conclusions -- 9 The Regeneration of Rotterdam and the 'South Pact' -- Introduction -- Urban development and decline -- Policy context -- The regeneration of South Rotterdam and partnership arrangements -- Social sustainability -- Conclusions -- 10 Leipzig East and the Socially Integrative City ('Soziale Stadt') Programme -- Introduction -- Policy context -- Funding structures -- Partnership arrangements -- Social sustainability -- Conclusions -- Part III Best practices in Urban Regeneration: Concluding Perspectives -- 11 Towards Best Practice and a Social Sustainability Assessment Framework -- Introduction and context -- Best practice in social sustainability monitoring systems: igloo's SRI system -- The social sustainability assessment framework -- Conclusions -- 12 Conclusions -- Introduction -- Setting the scene: from distressed urban areas to regenerated urban areas? -- Socially sustainable urban regeneration policy -- Best approaches and practices to implement and monitor social sustainability -- Public-private partnerships and emerging urban regeneration delivery vehicles -- The future of urban regeneration: Moving out of recession and retaining the social dimension -- Appendices -- 1 Interviews conducted as part of the research process and fieldworks -- 2 Vancouver's quality of life and social sustainability indicators -- 3 The evolution of sustainable development metrics initiatives by governmental and institutional organisations -- 4 Main CSR and social capital initiatives, tools and techniques.

5 Assessment of igloo's SRI policy objectives -- 6 List of comparative baseline basic indicators for La Mina neighbourhood (2001) -- Bibliography -- Index.