Good Local Economics

In diamond jubilee year let’s create a network of ‘Elizabeth’ parks

Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee in 1897 coincided with a huge investment in public parks and open spaces to serve and improve Britain’s expanding cities and to create local civic pride. Dozens of town and cities benefited from the creation of their own Victoria Parks, funded through public subscription or private donation.

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Culture-led regeneration in an age of austerity

Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Never mind Plan B, let’s get Plan A right

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Can Bristol’s elected mayor unite a divided city?

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

LEPs need to develop resilient local economic futures

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

One giant step for humankind

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Why economic recovery may be bad news for low income households

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

The big sobriety

Communities Finance Good Local Economics

Big Society is dead, let community collectivism flourish

Two words that we hear less and less, especially by government ministers, are ‘Big Society’. In the 2010 general election, the ‘Big Society’ was one of the prime minister’s major policy initiatives and one of the ways by which society was going to be changed for the better.