Abstract
The community-led housing renewal approach offers a potential alternative to technocratic and market-oriented mechanisms that cannot fully address insufficient housing delivery in deprived neighbourhoods (National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2019). This housing delivery insufficiency is often associated with social-economic issues such as social exclusion of lower-income tenants. Thus, this research aims to analyze an institutional pathway in community-led housing renewal, which can deliver physical housing renewal and respond to deprivation and exclusion by community participation. To illustrate an institutional innovation pathway in housing renewal that can better coordinate social, physical, and institutional dimensions (Sandercock, 2000, p.134; Healey, 1998, p.1531-1532), this research adopts the synergistic approach as a methodology (Ravetz, 2016; 2020).
Three main analytical approaches are drawn on this tailored analytical framework. Firstly, a political ecology approach examines socio-economic and socio-ecological relationships in Taiwanese housing renewal contexts. It highlights unequal access to resources between different stakeholders, focusing on the most marginal and excluded. Institutional analysis then looks at how these relations are applied through linear, elite-led governance, and co-governance structures. Thirdly, the ‘synergistic’ approach provides tools for cognitive mapping of the mutual learning and co-production between stakeholders: both for the current situation and for the potential of deeper participation and “collective local intelligence’ at neighbourhood level. Then, three levels of case study analyses are applied to the framework for detailed examination of housing renewal institutions.
Three main analytical approaches are drawn on this tailored analytical framework. Firstly, a political ecology approach examines socio-economic and socio-ecological relationships in Taiwanese housing renewal contexts. It highlights unequal access to resources between different stakeholders, focusing on the most marginal and excluded. Institutional analysis then looks at how these relations are applied through linear, elite-led governance, and co-governance structures. Thirdly, the ‘synergistic’ approach provides tools for cognitive mapping of the mutual learning and co-production between stakeholders: both for the current situation and for the potential of deeper participation and “collective local intelligence’ at neighbourhood level. Then, three levels of case study analyses are applied to the framework for detailed examination of housing renewal institutions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Research Methodology Conference Proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | Conducting Research and Revisiting Research Methods in Education and Doctoral Studies in the (Post) COVID-19 Era: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Editors | Cengiz Karabekmez, Luca Morini, M. Murat Erguvan, Mustafa Demir, Waycell Erdemm, Virginia C. King |
| Place of Publication | Coventry |
| Publisher | The London Institute of Social Studies |
| Pages | 60 |
| Number of pages | 82 |
| ISBN (Print) | 2755-9645 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Sept 2022 |