Outputs (43)
Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation (2023)
Report
The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.
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
Integrated infrastructure planning: The role of territorial governance frameworks in making a difference (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.
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.
Localism and spatial planning: Lessons from France (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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
Birmingham: Whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring (2008)
Journal Article
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.
Enterprise zones and zones Franches Urbaines: Greenlining urban neighbourhoods in the UK and France (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Responding to unpopular social housing in Vaulx en Velin, Greater Lyon: An English perspective (2005)
Journal Article
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.
Restructuring large housing estates in Europe (2005)
Book
"Bulldozing the North and concreting over the South"? The United Kingdom government’s sustainable communities plan (2004)
Journal Article
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
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.
Joining it up locally? Area regeneration and holistic government in England (2000)
Journal Article
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.
The way forward for regeneration?: Lessons from the single regeneration budget challenge fund (2000)
Journal Article
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.
Joined-up regeneration: Does the new commitment to regeneration signal the way ahead? (1999)
Journal Article
Continuity and change: A review of English regeneration policy in the 1990s (1999)
Journal Article
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.
Competition, partnership, empowerment: The language of a contradictory localism (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Rise and Fall of Local Economic Development? a Case Study of Dudley MBC (1995)
Journal Article
City Pride: The Birmingham experience (1995)
Journal Article