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Who killed neighbourhood renewal in England?

Could you imagine a company spending billions of pounds developing a product, honing it over ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Playing into the populists’ hands

We shouldn’t downplay the pain the cuts will cause. But nor should we paint such ...

Regeneration

How to build a positive Olympics legacy? Focus on people, not projects

It would be a social and cultural disaster if the Olympics that were sold to ...

Communities

Love, urbanism and a deadly ski slope

We talk about the value of place in the abstract, not in the gut. Perhaps ...

Communities Local Government

Co-operating without crises

Perhaps the chronic problems we face on so many fronts, social, economic, political, will result ...

Communities Housing Local Government Regeneration

Community-led regen is not enough

While we need and must start with Big Local efforts, we also need 'Big Urban', ...

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Going with the grain

If we take time to look, we can see that neighbourhoods are full of gems ...

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Exposing the lie

The lie is self-reinforcing. You hear it used every time people don’t respond to meaningless ...

Communities Economic Development Local Government Regeneration

What now for Labour’s neighbourhoods?

If Labour councils can maintain a dialogue with activist movements and community groups, even in ...

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Learning to learn

The government, for better or worse, isn’t going to establish a national urban skills strategy ...