What is the role of the state in regeneration?
The debate about the role of central government in reviving deprived places is stuck. The real issue isn’t more or less government, but where and what type, argues John P. Houghton.
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Let’s make it personal
21st February 2012 By Robert Ashton
You see for the right people, who do the right thing; social entrepreneurship is never for personal profit. You know that because of the choice they have made to ignore more lucrative corporate work to focus on doing what they do.
Trickle down and out – time for trickle up
21st February 2012 By Neil McInroy
Unemployment on the increase, poverty growing, local…
Reconciling communities through regeneration
14th February 2012 By Sylvia Gordon
Although Northern Ireland is in many ways a unique case, the idea of bringing communities together through regeneration has much wider application.
A bad marriage
13th February 2012 By Philip Monaghan
Why ‘sustainable urbanisation’ is an impossible dream unless local governance is wedded to better global stewardship
The power of language to tell the story of place
9th February 2012 By Sarah Longlands
Currently, the UK has no plan, no strategy and no ideas about how policy should support places where economic growth can be difficult, and sometimes darn-near impossible, other than to say that they should try and grow.
The Bristol Pound won’t save our town centre
8th February 2012 By Keren Suchecki
Bristol is to launch its own currency in May, imaginatively named the Bristol Pound or the £B.
Book Review: Small Gritty and Green
8th February 2012 By Tom Stannard
UK practitioners will be energised by the stories of personal endeavour by Tumber’s heroes fighting for the future of small to medium sized towns and cities as not subservient to these ‘mega-regions’, but as fundamental to their survival and sustainability.
Re-imagining the high street
8th February 2012 By Garry Haywood
There are many potential uses for former shops including office space, residential, community facilities and so on. It doesn’t have to be solely about retail space. We need to get all stakeholders including landlords and local authorities thinking about this and creating new opportunities for re-imagining the high street.
It’s time to just muddle through
6th February 2012 By neilmcinroy
The time for silly caricatures must pass. The public sector is not in the main bureaucratic, whilst the private sector are not ‘greedy’. The idea that business was fettered by public policy was silly. All businesses and the wider economy need public sector inputs.
