Open Access

Regeneration plan unveiled for Gateshead

Following engagement with the local community and civic leaders, plans have been announced to regenerate Gateshead town centre.

Communities Local Government Open Access

‘Wigan Deal’ praised for improving health and wellbeing

Communities Open Access

Building community bonds in a resort economy

Communities Open Access

10 ideas for change: North east England.

Communities Finance Local Government Open Access

It’s time to start taking young people seriously.

Open Access

Technology is not enough, we need to talk to one another.

Local Government Open Access Regeneration

Gentrification is a social ill. Here’s five ways to combat it in Bristol

Communities Economic Development Local Government Open Access

The Bristol Pound: A local economic incubator

Local Government Open Access Regeneration

Gentrification is a social ill. Here’s five ways to combat it in Bristol

One of the single most important challenges facing Bristol and cities like it as they grow their economies is how to do development without doing gentrification. I set out from the start that I believe gentrification to be a social ill. This is not because I want communities to remain stagnant. Rather it’s because gentrification more often is driven by and is an expression of the relative powerless of some in the face of the power of others, the further exclusion of the economically marginalised from economic opportunity, and underpins growing racial and class segregation.