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When it comes to engagement and building trust, you can’t beat old-fashioned community activism

There is a connection between an individual’s first experience as a volunteer, to their involvement ...

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Black Country Make: Building a digital factory on a 1960s estate

Black Country Make are a group of young adults living on the Heath Town estate ...

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Inspiring Scottish regeneration: The 2014 Surf awards

For more than ten years now, Surf and the Scottish government have worked in partnership ...

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

Place-based approaches are the only hope for our future

I would contend that the best hope in the bleak landscape of public services and ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics

Bringing the village to the city

Q & A with Gilbert Rochecouste, the founder of Village Well, Australia’s first placemaking agency.

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Lessons from Australia: Creating liveability

In a recent report on liveability, Australian cities made up four of the top ten. ...

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Social immobility: of queens and commoners

If you are doing all you can but only twice as fast is good enough, ...

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Loneliness and isolation: stark meaning in so little words

Efficiency without love creates the conditions for loneliness and isolation. This a form of robbery ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

A bad marriage

Why ‘sustainable urbanisation’ is an impossible dream unless local governance is wedded to better global ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

A laboratory for a new economic development

The Evergreen Cooperatives Initiative is harnessing the spending power of hospitals and universities to rebuild ...