عنوان

Business district regeneration and the experience of small retailers :

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TLets791130

Title Proper

Business district regeneration and the experience of small retailers :

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Roy, Shilpi

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the case of Khulna, Bangladesh

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Deas, Iain ; Beebeejaun, Yasminah

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University of Manchester

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

University of Manchester

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2014

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This thesis assesses the implications of current urban planning and business district regeneration policies and practices for small retailers in the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. Through a mixed-method embedded case study strategy, it explores the problems and opportunities affecting small retailers in business districts, and the effectiveness of the planning and regeneration policies and practices that impinge upon them. The research findings suggest that small retailers face a number of challenges linked to ownership of land and premises, investment capacity and the quality of the built environment. The findings demonstrate that contemporary regeneration policy frameworks have not adequately addressed these issues. Evidence from case study fieldwork suggests that these failings can be attributed to the inequitable distribution of resources, the inappropriate nature of the regulatory framework governing planning, and the dominance of particular values amongst public planning elites, which militate against the ability of small retail owners to participate effectively in the policy-making process. The thesis concludes that these process-related problems reflect the dominance of the neo-liberal aspirations, which underlie public planning practices in Khulna, and the inadequate utilisation of emerging developmental ideas aimed at supporting marginal groups. The thesis articulates an alternative approach to planning and proposes regeneration policies that are more sensitive to the needs of small retailers. It concludes that the prosperity of small retailers would be better served by more inclusive modes of policy-making and delivery, which provide greater scope for meaningful participation based on pluralist democratic principles as an alternative to post-political technocratic governance by policy elites.

Bangladesh

Regeneration

Small retailing

Urban Planning

Roy, Shilpi

Beebeejaun, Yasminah

Deas, Iain

University of Manchester

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[Thesis]

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