From Regeneration to Repair: Exploring Alternative Directions for Urban Development in Twenty-First Century London

作为一座贫富差距日益加剧的城市，伦敦的城市发展越来越多地被置换和可置换所定义。虽然主要是通过住房的棱镜来解读，但这一趋势也涵盖了经济、社会、文化和社区基础设施，这些基础设施构成了该市各种受欢迎的社区。在这个故事中，再生规划不仅在塑造城市可置换主体的建设方面起到了作用，它还成为了替代再生未来的斗争和竞争的场所。放大伦敦南沃克区(LBS)，这篇论文将探索置换和可置换性是如何在当地的更新规划中被建造和争辩的。接听和放大呼声，寻找了解(并因此在城市中行动)的替代方式。在市政主义再次成为世界各地城市正义运动的“希望密码”的时候，对市政规划者在现代城市中制定(和取消)可替换性的机构保持批判性关注，对于保持规划理念作为(重新)变革的可主张的力量至关重要。尽管萨瑟克的经历植根于伦敦市中心一个行政区的现实环境，但它的经历将与当地和全球范围内引起共鸣的对话联系在一起，这些对话涉及这座城市是为了谁、为了什么，以及在这种情况下，如何以及在什么条件下可以(重新)声称再生规划是进步变革的杠杆。从规划理论和实践中更常见的南向转向的思想和重点中获得灵感，本论文试图将辩论从更新转向修复，探索将其作为首都主导和置换的城市发展方法的命题替代方案。该项目的中心研究问题是：在当代更新规划中，移位和可移位性是如何构建和竞争的？

A city of intense and intensifying inequalities, urban development in London is increasingly defined by displacement and displaceability. Although predominantly read through the prism of housing, this trend also envelops the economic, social, cultural and community infrastructures which comprise the city's diverse popular neighbourhoods. Within this story, regeneration planning not only has a hand in shaping the construction of displaceable subjects in the city, it has also emerged as a locus of struggle and contestation for alternative regeneration futures. Zooming in on the London Borough of Southwark (LBS), this thesis will explore how displacement and displaceability is being constructed and contested in local regeneration planning. Picking up and amplifying calls for alternative ways of knowing (and thus acting in) the city. At a time when municipalism is once again emerging as a 'cipher of hope' for urban justice movements the world over, maintaining critical attention on the agency of municipal planners in the making (and unmaking) of displaceability in the modern city is essential to keeping the idea of planning in play as a (re)claimable force for change. Although grounded in the situated reality of one inner-London borough, the experience of Southwark will be connected to locally and globally resonant conversations about who and what the city is for and, within this, how and under what conditions regeneration planning might be (re)claimed as a lever for progressive change. Drawing inspiration from ideas and emphases more commonly associated with the so-called southern turn in planning theory and practice, this thesis seeks to switch the debate from regeneration to repair exploring this as a propositional alternative to dominant and displacing urban development approaches in the capital.The central research question for the project is: How is displacement and displaceability constructed and contested in contemporary regeneration planning?