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Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda (2012)
Journal Article
Servillo, L., Atkinson, R., & Russo, A. P. (2012). Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda. European Urban and Regional Studies, 19(4), 349-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776411430289

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.

Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, I., & Atkinson, R. (2011). Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe. Local Economy, 26(6-7), 562-576. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094211418899

The article sets out a two-dimensional regional typology combining measures of migration and visiting rates. It argues that forms of mobility are interrelated but that the relationship varies by broad type of region and it argues for a place-based ap... Read More about Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe.

Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., & Klausen, J. E. (2011). Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 13(3), 231-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2011.578403

The EU, through the Cardiff and the Gothenburg strategies, sought to counter what was seen as fragmented and uncoordinated environmental policy development by promoting a broad and integrated approach to sustainability. This article seeks to assess t... Read More about Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration.

Sustainability in European Environment Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge (2010)
Book
Atkinson, R., Terizakis, G., & Zimmermann, K. (2010). Sustainability in European Environment Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge. Routledge

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORY This book is based on an FR6 Research project – Governance for Sustainability – and constitutes one... Read More about Sustainability in European Environment Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge.

Cities and the ‘soft side’ of Europeanization: the role of urban networks (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R., & Rossignolo, C. (2010). Cities and the ‘soft side’ of Europeanization: the role of urban networks. In A. Hamedinger, & A. Wolffhardt (Eds.), The Europeanization of Cities - Policies, Urban Change & Urban Networks. Amsterdam: Techne Press

This chapter addresses the impact of the Europeanization process on cities; how cities are influenced by the process and how they influence the process. It breaks new ground by identifying and examining the types of networks that cities create (engag... Read More about Cities and the ‘soft side’ of Europeanization: the role of urban networks.

Spatial planning, urban policy and the search for integration: the example of a medium sized city – Plymouth (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R. (2010). Spatial planning, urban policy and the search for integration: the example of a medium sized city – Plymouth. In M. Cerreta, G. Concillo, & V. Monno (Eds.), Making Strategies in Spatial Planning: Knowledges and Values (101-122). Springer

An examination of how thinking on European Spatial Policy has impacted on England, the chapter seeks to examine this process of translation from the European to the national to the local level. It does this through a case study of Plymouth. The chapt... Read More about Spatial planning, urban policy and the search for integration: the example of a medium sized city – Plymouth.

European urban policies and the neighbourhood: an overview (2008)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R. (2008). European urban policies and the neighbourhood: an overview. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 161(3), 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.2008.161.3.115

The paper examines the policies to address urban policies in several European countries with reference to contemporary European discourses on urban change. In particular it focuses on the role of the neighbourhood within these policies seeking to rev... Read More about European urban policies and the neighbourhood: an overview.

The Re-Creation of the European City: Governance, Territory and Polycentricity (2008)
Book
Atkinson, R., & Rossignolo, C. (2008). The Re-Creation of the European City: Governance, Territory and Polycentricity. Amsterdam: Techne Press

The book brings together chapters from authors across Europe to investigate the position of regions and cities and presents different views of how cities and regions are conceived and planned at different scales in different European contexts. It rev... Read More about The Re-Creation of the European City: Governance, Territory and Polycentricity.

Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration (2003)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R. (2003). Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration. In R. Imrie, & M. Raco (Eds.), Urban Renaissance? New Labour, Community and Urban Policy (101-119). Bristol: Policy Press

Based on research carried out as part of the first phase of the National Evaluation of the New Deal for Communities, funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, this was the largest evaluation project of its type ever carried out in the UK (wo... Read More about Addressing urban social exclusion through community involvement in urban regeneration.