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Civic sector 2013: The collaborative local economy

The sharing economy offers a chance for people to create new forms of exchange that ...

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The corner shop can be the place where human links are restored

The corner shop should be a hub where networks of trust and recommendation grow, where ...

Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

The smoke and mirrors of laissez-faire localism

Laissez-faire localism doesn’t put communities in the driving seat. It leaves them to clear up ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Why I was won over by the Queen of Shops

Austerity shouldn’t mean years of misery. Town centres should become places where we have a ...

Built Environment Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Sustainability in austerity

In part two of our review of 2011 Julian Dobson reflects on a year when ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Why George Osborne’s £30bn won’t really change anything

We must ask the questions George Osborne (and most of his opponents) don’t: what kind ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government

A People’s Budget: why not just do it?

So participatory budgeting can be an important step in the quest for that elusive holy ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The ageing north needs a vision

We face some stark choices, and for all the government’s talk of rebalancing the economy, ...

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Rupert Murdoch’s gift to democracy

A working democracy is one where nobody can hide - business, press, politician or administrator ...

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Let’s build a national grid of community infrastructure

Just as we have a National Grid to collect and distribute electrical power, harnessing and ...