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Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Barnett, N., Griggs, S., Hall, S., & Howarth, D. (2022). Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK. Local Government Studies, 48(5), 907-928. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1988935

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
Ersoy, A., & Hall, S. (2020). Bristol Green Capital Partnership: An exemplar of reflexive governance for sustainable urban development?. Town Planning Review, 91(4), 397-413. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.23

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?.

Characterizing and evaluating rival discourses of the ‘sustainable city’: Towards a politics of pragmatic adversarialism (2017)
Journal Article
Griggs, S., Hall, S., Howarth, D., & Seigenuret, N. (2017). Characterizing and evaluating rival discourses of the ‘sustainable city’: Towards a politics of pragmatic adversarialism. Political Geography, 59, 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.007

© 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.

Plant closures and taskforce responses: An analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham (2014)
Journal Article
Bailey, D., Bentley, G., de Ruyter, A., & Hall, S. (2014). Plant closures and taskforce responses: An analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 1(1), 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2014.899477

© 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.

Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2013)
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Hall, S. (2013). Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham. Local Economy, 28(5), 499-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094213483968

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
Chignier-Riboulon, F., & Hall, S. (2013). Enterprise Zones and Zones Franches Urbaines: A critique of area-based fiscal incentives and regeneration in England and France. Urban Research and Practice, 6(2), 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2013.808434

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)
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Squires, G., & Hall, S. (2013). Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States). Land Use Policy, 33, 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.12.010

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
Hall, S. (2012). Planning for industrial closure: Lessons from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham. Urban Research and Practice, 5(1), 175-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2012.656462

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.

Resident participation in housing regeneration in France (2011)
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Hall, S., & Hickman, P. (2011). Resident participation in housing regeneration in France. Housing Studies, 26(6), 827-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2011.593127

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.

Birmingham: Whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring (2008)
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Barber, A., & Hall, S. (2008). Birmingham: Whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring. Policy Studies, 29(3), 281-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442870802159871

This paper draws together two traditionally distinct discourses that have dominated debates over urban policy responses to economic restructuring, deindustrialisation, major plant closures and the rise of the service and knowledge-based economy over... Read More about Birmingham: Whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring.

Responding to unpopular social housing in Vaulx en Velin, Greater Lyon: An English perspective (2005)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Hickman, P. (2005). Responding to unpopular social housing in Vaulx en Velin, Greater Lyon: An English perspective. European Journal of Housing Policy, 5(1), 17-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616710500055646

In recent years, in many parts of England and France a mismatch between housing supply and demand has resulted in an increasing number of neighbourhoods experiencing problems of empty properties, depressed house prices and high stock turnover. This p... Read More about Responding to unpopular social housing in Vaulx en Velin, Greater Lyon: An English perspective.

"Bulldozing the North and concreting over the South"? The United Kingdom government’s sustainable communities plan (2004)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Hickman, P. (2004). "Bulldozing the North and concreting over the South"? The United Kingdom government’s sustainable communities plan. https://doi.org/10.4000/geocarrefour.659

This paper provides a critical commentary on the United Kingdom government’s Sustainable Communities Plan, published in February 2003, which addresses two contrasting housing market problems in England: excess demand in the South and low demand in ar... Read More about "Bulldozing the North and concreting over the South"? The United Kingdom government’s sustainable communities plan.

Neighbourhood renewal and urban policy: A comparison of new approaches in England and France (2002)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Hickman, P. (2002). Neighbourhood renewal and urban policy: A comparison of new approaches in England and France. Regional Studies, 36(6), 691-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400220146821

This article seeks to re-animate the Anglo-French debate on neighbourhood renewal and urban policy that characterized the mid 1990s. This is appropriate given the apparent similarities between the recent approaches adopted in the two countries. The c... Read More about Neighbourhood renewal and urban policy: A comparison of new approaches in England and France.

The way forward for regeneration?: Lessons from the single regeneration budget challenge fund (2000)
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Hall, S. (2000). The way forward for regeneration?: Lessons from the single regeneration budget challenge fund. Local Government Studies, 26(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930008433974

The Labour government's embryonic local regeneration agenda is considered in the context of lessons from the SRB Challenge Fund inherited from its Conservative predecessor. It is argued that (under the Conservatives): the SRB process was highly centr... Read More about The way forward for regeneration?: Lessons from the single regeneration budget challenge fund.

Joining it up locally? Area regeneration and holistic government in England (2000)
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Mawson, J., & Hall, S. (2000). Joining it up locally? Area regeneration and holistic government in England. Regional Studies, 34(1), 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400050005899

The problems of deprived neighbourhoods have been a concern for government for over 30 years. A plethora of approaches has been adopted: from central-local government partnerships (Urban Programme); to 'top down', market led solutions (Urban Developm... Read More about Joining it up locally? Area regeneration and holistic government in England.

Continuity and change: A review of English regeneration policy in the 1990s (1999)
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Hall, S., & Nevin, B. (1999). Continuity and change: A review of English regeneration policy in the 1990s. Regional Studies, 33(5), 477-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343409950081310

The introduction of the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) in 1994 was a response to a decade of urban policy which was perceived to have had a limited impact upon disadvantaged localities. This failure was due to a focus on property development and to... Read More about Continuity and change: A review of English regeneration policy in the 1990s.