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The rise and decline of the European struggle against social exclusion (2023)
Book Chapter

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, addressing social exclusion and achieving greater social inclusion figured prominently in the “social policy” discourse of the European Union and of many national governments within it. This chapter discusses soc... Read More about The rise and decline of the European struggle against social exclusion.

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.

Urban policy in European Cohesion Policy (2021)
Book Chapter

Since the early 1990s cities have been part of European Cohesion Policy (ECP) and much has been written on the relationship between ECP and cities. We will briefly summarize this process, highlighting the discursive shift from an anti-poverty agenda... Read More about Urban policy in European Cohesion Policy.

Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion (2020)
Journal Article

This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the... Read More about Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion.

In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion (2020)
Journal Article

Territorial cohesion has figured in the lexicon of the European Union for some years. However, there has never been a clear definition of the notion, not even after its inclusion in the Lisbon Treaty. Moreover, within the European Union Cohesion Repo... Read More about In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion.

Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance: Generation of fragmented regimes of public accountability through urban regeneration (2020)
Journal Article

In this article we explore the idea of public accountability in the contemporary entrepreneurial governance of cities, which are influenced by market dependency and private sector involvement. We specifically focus on the fragmentation of public acco... Read More about Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance: Generation of fragmented regimes of public accountability through urban regeneration.

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?.

European spatial planning policy (2018)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we argue that there has been a growing interest in spatial planning policies supported by the European Commission and a limited number of member states across Europe for several decades and that its roots lie in the planning systems a... Read More about European spatial planning policy.

Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). The arena of locally embedded and engendered responses to climate change offers a particularly fruitful and challenging space in which to scrutinise the encounters between established form... Read More about Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change.

Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance? (2018)
Book Chapter

Area-based initiatives (ABI) emerged in the 1980s and 1990s as a new policy tool in the context of urban regeneration in various European countries, most notably Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, France and - somewhat later – Germany. The wider appli... Read More about Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance?.

Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a bro... Read More about Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action.

Governing urban regeneration: Planning and regulatory tools in the UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on our initial work as part of the PARCOUR (Public Accountability to Residents in COntractual Urban Redevelopment) research project this paper will investigate the forms of governance arrangements developed in three UK case studies (Bristol,... Read More about Governing urban regeneration: Planning and regulatory tools in the UK.

Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe: Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG Despite that small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) have been, and continue to be, a central part of the history of Europe, these places have largely been neglected by urban research. The ESPON TOWN project,... Read More about Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe: Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues.

Policies for small and medium-sized towns: European, national and local approaches (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG This paper addresses the ‘policy dimension’ of the TOWN project drawing on the implications of the case studies for policy(ies) for small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) across Europe. It first considers ap... Read More about Policies for small and medium-sized towns: European, national and local approaches.

Who is responsible for incorporating the notion of 'public interest' into sustainable urban developments? A case study of three sites in the south-west of England (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public-private partnership agreements between local authorities and government agencies and developers have become the modus operandi in the UK since the 1990s for the regeneration of brownfield sites in UK towns and cities. This paper explores these... Read More about Who is responsible for incorporating the notion of 'public interest' into sustainable urban developments? A case study of three sites in the south-west of England.

A comparison of public-private partnership development of previously used land in the UK (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the UK public-private partnerships are currently the only method of developing previously used land. How these partnerships are formed and how they work can differ considerably however, depending on the approach taken by the partners. Through inte... Read More about A comparison of public-private partnership development of previously used land in the UK.

Cohesion policy and cities: An ambivalent relationship (2016)
Book Chapter

Since the early 1990s the European Commission has launched several urban initiatives that were considered to be part of Cohesion policy. Initiatives such as URBAN I and URBAN II were widely accepted as successful urban programmes that helped cities t... Read More about Cohesion policy and cities: An ambivalent relationship.

Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda (2012)
Journal Article

The paper introduces the concept of territorial assets and discusses their role for regional development. Focusing on European societies and taking into account different strands of the literature on place and territorial capital, we argue that the e... Read More about Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda.

ATTREG: The attractiveness of European regions and cities for residents and visitors (2012)
Report