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Germany shows how strengthening local power is key to recovery (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine

Freiburg, a small, innovative city in southern Germany, provides insights on how to improve civic leadership and city planning in the UK. Proposals for Dietenbach, a new eco-friendly neighbourhood designed to house 15,000 people are outlined. Three... Read More about Germany shows how strengthening local power is key to recovery.

Place, power and post Covid-19 recovery (2021)
Digital Artefact

Robin Hambleton FRSA argues that Covid-19 is opening up promising political possibilities for radical place-based innovation and experiment.

Place power and post COVID-19 recovery (2021)
Digital Artefact

This contribution to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Comments page considers the role of place-based leadership in post COVID-19 recovery. It suggests that, notwithstanding the growth in technologies enabling us to communicate effortlessly across sp... Read More about Place power and post COVID-19 recovery.

Place-based leadership beyond place: The rise of international city diplomacy (2021)
Book Chapter

A consequence of globalisation is that place-less leaders, meaning people who are not expected to care about the consequences of their decisions for particular places and communities, have gained extraordinary power and influence. This chapter exami... Read More about Place-based leadership beyond place: The rise of international city diplomacy.

COVID-19 opens a new political window (2020)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense suffering and misery. However, at the same time, it has created new possibilities for rethinking the kind of society that we want to create in the future. This article adopts an international perspective and... Read More about COVID-19 opens a new political window.

Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better (2020)
Book

The COVID-19 virus outbreak has rocked the world and it is widely accepted that there can be no return to the pre-pandemic society of 2019. However, many suggestions for the future of society and the planet are aimed at national governments, interna... Read More about Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better.

From best practice to relevant practice in international city-to-city learning (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter sets out five main reasons why there is no such thing as 'best practice' when it comes to international city-to-city learning and dialogue. The chapter then considers the nature of international exchange and distinguishes three overlapp... Read More about From best practice to relevant practice in international city-to-city learning.

The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action (2020)
Journal Article

The One City Approach to city governance in Bristol, UK is designed to unify civic purpose in the city: it is ambitious, inclusive and innovative. In 2016 the new, directly elected Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, decided to work with a wide range of c... Read More about The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action.

What can local government learn from the coronavirus? (2020)
Journal Article

This short Opinion article for Local Government Chronicle praises the response of UK local government to the covid-19 pandemic. It goes on to discuss three questions that are important for future public policy: 1) Was our country ready for this onsl... Read More about What can local government learn from the coronavirus?.

Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference? (2020)
Report

This research report on the impact of mayoral governance in Bristol analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the mayoral model. Researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, Bristol have gathered data over an ei... Read More about Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference?.

Leading the healthy city: Taking advantage of the power of place (2020)
Journal Article

Creating healthy cities requires the exercise of bold city and community leadership. However, our understanding of the role of local leadership, from inside and outside the state, in bringing about processes that can co-create healthy, just and susta... Read More about Leading the healthy city: Taking advantage of the power of place.

The international leadership agenda for councils (2019)
Journal Article

Written at the invitation of the editor of Local Government Chronicle (LGC), this short article outlines three overlapping reasons why city and regional leaders are becoming increasingly active in international, place-to-place networking learning and... Read More about The international leadership agenda for councils.

Debate: Researching directly elected mayors—key questions to address (2019)
Journal Article

The directly elected mayor model of governance is long established in many countries – for example, the USA and Japan. However, in some countries the model is fairly new. For example, in the UK there were no directly elected mayors until 2000 – tha... Read More about Debate: Researching directly elected mayors—key questions to address.

Rallying the power of place (2019)
Journal Article

This article, aimed at local governance policy-makers, outlines a new way of conceptualising local leadership, described as New Civic Leadership (NCL). NCL, which involves strong, place-based leadership acting to co-create new solutions to public pol... Read More about Rallying the power of place.

Place-based leadership beyond place: Exploring the international dimension of civic leadership (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A consequence of globalisation is that place-less leaders, meaning people who are not expected to care about the consequences of their decisions for particular places and communities, have gained extraordinary power and influence. This paper explore... Read More about Place-based leadership beyond place: Exploring the international dimension of civic leadership.

The New Civic Leadership: Place and the co-creation of public innovation (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper discusses the role of place-based leadership in stimulating the co-creation of inclusive public services and outcomes. A conceptual framework, designed to illuminate t... Read More about The New Civic Leadership: Place and the co-creation of public innovation.

How can the US experience advance the civic university? (2019)
Journal Article

This short article responds to the recent report of the UK Civic University Commission, 'Truly civic: Strengthening the connection between universities and their places'. The article suggests that British universities can, as they consider the Commi... Read More about How can the US experience advance the civic university?.

The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor (2019)
Journal Article

Within the context of debates regarding depoliticisation, this article considers how the introduction of a directly elected mayor system of governance impacts on urban politics. Directly elected mayors are now a fundamental feature of many political... Read More about The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor.

Local leadership is the answer to populism (2019)
Journal Article

This short article explains how collaborative approaches to local problem solving are on the rise. These efforts redraw the boundaries between the state and civil society in intriguing new ways. The example of outgoing civic leadership in Bristol i... Read More about Local leadership is the answer to populism.

A counter-movement to 'place-less' power. Planners as progressive place-based leaders (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that it is helpful to distinguish between place-less and place-based power. Place-less decision-makers are unconcerned about the impact of their decisions on communities living in particular localities. The forces of economic gl... Read More about A counter-movement to 'place-less' power. Planners as progressive place-based leaders.