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Mobility centre-oriented urban regeneration: examining place value of railway stations

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Urban regeneration involves the notion of reconstruction of places, where regeneration initiatives are undertaken to ameliorate the quality of physical and social spaces, accrue economic profitability of space, and finally encourage environmental sustainability. Railway stations all around the world have a very important role to play in contemporary urban regeneration strategies as places of both social and material interest. With the progress of the twentieth century several issues like rapidly growing population, seemingly relentless urbanisation, an alarming rate of vehicle emission, and consequent pollution emphasised railway stations as critical places with great potentials of infrastructure development for the optimised functioning of urban centres. Thus the huge value of railway stations and their adjacent land has been acknowledged since the last quarter of the previous century. This paper aims to analyse the place value of railway stations and their immediate neighbourhoods within the urban fabric of a city using a relevant theoretical concept i.e. the ‘Node-Place Model’. Simultaneously it also draws attention to the notion of (re)development of functional spaces in and around the railway stations as a dimension of contemporary urban regeneration strategies, with the help of some global examples. This paper thereby reveals that in the urban centres throughout the entire world the railway stations are progressively attaining the focal position within integrated transport and land use planning strategies, either under the larger concept of 'Transit-Oriented Development' (TOD) or more simply, with the label of (re)development programme. This paper will significantly contribute to the ability of spatial policymakers to direct the future of urban growth towards public transit stations so as to achieve sustainable urban development.

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The authors want to express their gratitude to Late Prof. Ravi S. Singh for his constructive suggestions and support. We thank the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University for the material support (books, internet) that facilitated this research. We also thank the University Grants Commission for the Junior Research Fellowship, granted to the first author for his Ph.D. work (Ref No. 190510006296).

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Banerjee, I., Saha, A. Mobility centre-oriented urban regeneration: examining place value of railway stations. GeoJournal 87 (Suppl 4), 567–581 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10582-y

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