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Good practice in urban regeneration:

On the basis of a deeper understanding of the environment in which local partnerships work, we looked at successful urban development projects in the cities and identified innovative and successful urban regeneration tools. Our main focus was on the mechanisms of involving and coordinating public, private and civic engagement in the neighbourhoods.

When looking out for public private partnerships in particular, it became apparent that in all cities the public sector is still playing a dominant role not only in setting the agenda but also in implementing the projects and is thus securing important preconditions for partnership building. However, it has to be understood that the public sector is not a homogeneous body but a largely fragmented system; often it is only in the new integrated approaches of regeneration that public sector departments appear to develop joint area-based cooperation.