Local Government
Big Society, big economic shift?
The Big Society has always been painted as an antidote to big government, but what about the economics? Damian Tissier argues it could equally be about the end of big business and our obsession with the market
Jeremy Paxman once famously described it as ‘a concept as easy to bandy about and as hard to explain as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle or the doctrine of transubstantiation’.
The urban collective
Collective ownership models offer the chance of genuine progress in areas where regeneration has ground to a halt. But local and central government must learn to embrace them – or risk repeating mistakes of the past, argue Tom Archer and Rob Rowlands
Picture the scene, a demolition site where grass now grows on the mounds where terraced housing once stood and street lamps denote the century old layout of an urban settlement. Pinned up on the notice board is a grand vision – a masterplan for redevelopment.
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