Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation
(2023)
Report
All Outputs (41)
Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report
The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
This article explores the contested politics and interpretations of the new practices of municipal entrepreneurship across local government in the UK. Drawing on empirical evidence from six case studies of entrepreneurship in local councils, descript... Read More about Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK.
Bristol Green Capital Partnership: An exemplar of reflexive governance for sustainable urban development? (2020)
Journal Article
The theory of ‘reflexive governance’ prioritises process over outcomes and advocates participatory procedures, valorising multiple sources of knowledge, mutual learning and continuous evolution of organisational forms. Through the lens of reflexive g... Read More about Bristol Green Capital Partnership: An exemplar of reflexive governance for sustainable urban development?.
A Smarter Approach to Infrastructure Planning (2019)
Report
Characterizing and evaluating rival discourses of the ‘sustainable city’: Towards a politics of pragmatic adversarialism (2017)
Journal Article
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd For many, shifting economic and social contexts have created the conditions for a radical reappraisal of the orthodox image of the ‘sustainable city'. However, in assessing such potentialities, there is insufficient knowledge abou... Read More about Characterizing and evaluating rival discourses of the ‘sustainable city’: Towards a politics of pragmatic adversarialism.
Towards the ensuring state: Integrated governance and sustainable urban development in the European Union (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Building and reproducing regimes for sustainable urban development: A case study of Bristol and Grenoble (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plant closures and taskforce responses: An analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham (2014)
Journal Article
© 2014 The Author(s). This paper explores the socio-economic impacts and associated policy responses to the collapse of MG Rover at Longbridge in Birmingham. Critically, it attempts to move beyond a ‘standard’ taskforce narrative that emphasizes the... Read More about Plant closures and taskforce responses: An analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham.
Balancing growth and sustainability in employment land provision: Institutionalist perspectives on the homogeneity of planning policy and practice in England (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2013)
Journal Article
This article provides a critique of the policy response to the closure, in 2005, of the MG Rover factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. To date, the Longbridge 'narrative' has been dominated by the work of the Labour Government's MG Rover Task Force to s... Read More about Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham.
Enterprise Zones and Zones Franches Urbaines: A critique of area-based fiscal incentives and regeneration in England and France (2013)
Journal Article
This paper provides a critical commentary on area-based fiscal incentives and regeneration in Europe, focusing on Enterprise Zones (EZs) in Britain and zones franches urbaines (ZFUs) in France. It, thus, counters the trans-Atlantic comparative bias o... Read More about Enterprise Zones and Zones Franches Urbaines: A critique of area-based fiscal incentives and regeneration in England and France.
Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States) (2013)
Journal Article
There is a need to learn lessons when using spatially targeted fiscal experiments if intervention is to generate wider developmental benefit. This paper focuses on the Enterprise Zone concept in the UK (1981-2007) and an exported variant to the US, t... Read More about Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States).
Planning for industrial closure: Lessons from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2012)
Journal Article
This article provides a case study of the policy response to the closure of the MG Rover car factory in Birmingham in 2005. This article records how this response evolved over time from one focused on regional industrial policy, built on a coalition... Read More about Planning for industrial closure: Lessons from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham.
Localism and spatial planning: Lessons from France (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Resident participation in housing regeneration in France (2011)
Journal Article
The involvement of local residents in housing regeneration policy and practice has become a 'new orthodoxy' across Western Europe. This paper considers the experience of France, a country noted for its history of 'third sector' activism and innovativ... Read More about Resident participation in housing regeneration in France.
Deconstructing local narratives of sustainable development: The case of Bristol ‘Green Capital’ (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Planning for industrial closure: Observations from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution