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Balancing growth and sustainability in employment land provision: Institutionalist perspectives on the homogeneity of planning policy and practice in England (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, S., & Smith, I. (2013, September). Balancing growth and sustainability in employment land provision: Institutionalist perspectives on the homogeneity of planning policy and practice in England. Paper presented at UK Ireland Planning Research Conference ‘Healthy Communities, Hopeful Places: In defence of planning’, Bristol, Uk

Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2013)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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).