All Outputs (18)

Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset (2023)
Journal Article

Local leadership has become of increasing interest in the context of a renewed focus on local government and local development. In parallel, new interpretations of thinking about leadership drawing on Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Foucault suggest that... Read More about Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset.

Bristol’s inclusive growth strategy: Excavating the discourse of the One City Plan (2023)
Journal Article

Over the last twenty years, particularly since the publication of the Barca report (2009) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2014) report, a new 'conventional wisdom'/ paradigm has emerged for local development - the p... Read More about Bristol’s inclusive growth strategy: Excavating the discourse of the One City Plan.

Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: Between plans and reality in public-private partnerships (2022)
Journal Article

Internationally, brownfield regeneration projects are delivered through public-private partnerships that form complex legal and structural delivery mechanisms. Utilizing private-sector finance and skills is an accepted practice to reduce financial ri... Read More about Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: Between plans and reality in public-private partnerships.

Governing urban regeneration in the UK: a case of ‘variegated neoliberalism’ in action? (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The article focuses on the redevelopment of previously developed land by public-private sector partnerships in three cities/towns in South-West England, two of which can be descr... Read More about Governing urban regeneration in the UK: a case of ‘variegated neoliberalism’ in action?.

Traffic congestion in Beijing: issues and policies (2013)
Journal Article

Carnivals and regeneration (2007)
Journal Article

New populations in the British city centre: Evidence of social change from the census and household surveys (2007)
Journal Article

Encouraged by government policies to promote city centre living and to increase residential land use on brownfield sites, there has been considerable repopulation of the city centre. Through detailed small-area census analysis of Birmingham, Bristol,... Read More about New populations in the British city centre: Evidence of social change from the census and household surveys.

Bristol (2007)
Journal Article

Bristol is the sixth largest city in England and is one of eight 'core' cities. Bristol provides a particularly interesting example of a city which is currently relatively economically successful in the British context. However, there are pressures o... Read More about Bristol.

Developing leisure and cultural attractions in the regional city centre: A policy perspective (2006)
Journal Article

Smaller regional cities and former industrial cities throughout North America and Europe have experienced fundamental transformations of their economies over recent decades, and authorities have continually sought new functions for the postindustrial... Read More about Developing leisure and cultural attractions in the regional city centre: A policy perspective.

New ‘High Streets’ in the suburbs? The growing competitive impact of evolving retail parks (2006)
Journal Article

Following the emergence of retail parks in the late 1970s in Britain, they have grown in number, scale and degree of retail specialisation. Some continue to form concentrations offering primarily ‘bulky goods’ shopping, while others have diversified... Read More about New ‘High Streets’ in the suburbs? The growing competitive impact of evolving retail parks.

Regenerating Bristol's harbourside (2006)
Journal Article

City centre regeneration through residential development: Contributing to sustainability (2005)
Journal Article

Following a discussion of recent policies for the city centre in Britain, the paper explores the contribution of residential development to aspects of sustainability, drawing on a range of survey evidence in Bristol and Swansea. The residents are fre... Read More about City centre regeneration through residential development: Contributing to sustainability.

City profile: Swansea (2005)
Journal Article

Retail parks revisited: A growing competitive threat to traditional shopping centres? (2004)
Journal Article

Since the late 1970s retail parks have developed in the United Kingdom to become a substantial element of the process of retail decentralisation. From an early focus on 'bulky-goods' retailing, they have grown and evolved into a variety of unplanned... Read More about Retail parks revisited: A growing competitive threat to traditional shopping centres?.

Disaggregating the space-time layers of city-centre activities and their users (2003)
Journal Article

Adopting a focus on both time and space, the authors aim to unpack the complexity of uses and users in the city centre. Evidence from Swansea reveals a stark twofold temporal division between a frequently visited daytime city and a much less frequent... Read More about Disaggregating the space-time layers of city-centre activities and their users.

Residential transformation and the promotion of city centre living (2003)
Journal Article

Living in the 24-hour city (2002)
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Towards the "twenty-four hour city": Housing and city centre revitalisation (2001)
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