After urban regeneration: communities, policy and place

226 Pages·2016·3.437 MB·English

by  Matthews, Peter;O'Brien, Dave

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After
Urban
Regeneration
COMMUNITIES, POLICY
AND PLACE
Edited by
Dave O'Brien
and Peter Matthews
AFTER URBAN REGENERATION
Communities, policy and place
Edited by
Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews
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Contents
Notes on contributors v
one Introduction 1
Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien
Part One: After regeneration?
two Urban policy and communities 9
Stuart Wilks-Heeg
three Connecting community to the post-regeneration era 27
Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien
four When things fall apart 45
Sue Cohen and Morag McDermont
Part Two: Exploring epistemologies
five Micro-solutions for mega-problems: what works in urban 61
regeneration policy?
Max Nathan
six The work of art in the age of mechanical co-production 79
Steve Pool and Kate Pahl
seven “There is no local here, love” 95
Rebecca Bernstein, Antonia Layard, Martin Maudsley and
Hilary Ramsden
Part Three: New places for communities
eight Forging communities: the Caerau and Ely Rediscovering 113
Heritage project and the dynamics of co-production
Clyde Ancarno, Oliver Davis and David Wyatt
nine Lessons from ‘The Vale’ – the role of hyperlocal media 131
in shaping reputational geographies
David Harte and Jerome Turner
ten Contemporary governance discourse and digital media: 147
convergences, prospects and problems for the ‘Big
Society’ agenda
Chris Speed, Amadu Wurie Khan and Martin Phillips
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Part Four: New spaces for policy
Eleven Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: 165
the MapLocal pilot
Phil Jones, Antonia Layard, Colin Lorne and Chris Speed
Twelve Translation across borders: exploring the use, relevance and 181
impact of academic research in the policy process
Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz
Richardson, Peter Matthews and Robert Rutherfoord
Thirteen Conclusion 199
Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews
Index 205
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Notes on contributors
Clyde Ancarno completed her PhD in Linguistics in 2011 (Cardiff
University). Her experience and understanding of co-production and
public engagement in academic research (including the development
of bespoke evaluation tools) find their roots in a Knowledge Exchange
research project she designed and managed and for which she
engaged tourism businesses in London (UCL – 2012). She worked
on an AHRC-funded research project specifically concerned with
how academics in the humanities engage with communities (Cardiff
University – 2013). She is currently interested in participatory
approaches to applied linguistics research and works as a researcher on
the People, Products, Pests and Pets: The Discursive Representation
of Animals project (King’s College London).
Rebecca Bernstein is an editorial photographer based in Bristol.
She works for a number of publications including The Telegraph
Magazine and Gardens Illustrated, and specialises in portraiture and
garden photography. For this project Beki photographed residents
of St Werburghs and Patchway, Bristol, at various community events
including a storytelling event ‘Tasty Tales’ at the St Werburgh’s cafe
in Bristol.
Sue Cohen is Co-Investigator on the Productive Margins programme
based in the Law School at the University of Bristol. This five-year
Connected Communities initiative is developing co-produced research
with marginalised communities in Bristol and South Wales on the
theme of regulation. Sue has been involved in participatory initiatives
combating poverty and discrimination at a local, national and European
level. Sue was CEO of Single Parent Action Network from 1990 to
2013, working to support one-parent families to improve their life
chances. Sue helped to develop a network of grassroots groups from
many different cultures and backgrounds across the UK.
Stephen Connelly is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Town
and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK. His research
interests are broadly in the politics of policy making, and in particular
of stakeholder involvement in governance in both the global North and
South. Taking an interpretive approach, and drawing in part on social
psychological insights, recent research has taken him into institutional
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issues of welfare service integration and its evaluation, and investigating
how research is translated between academic and policy domains.
Oliver Davis is Lecturer in Archaeology at Cardiff University
and Co-director of the CAER (Caerau and Ely Rediscovering)
Heritage Project. His main archaeological research interests lie in the
understanding of later prehistoric settlement (particularly hillforts),
farming and social patterns. He is passionate about working with
communities and using archaeological themes and debates to explore
contemporary issues.
Catherine Durose is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Local
Government Studies and Director of Research and Knowledge
Transfer for the School of Government and Society at the University
of Birmingham. Catherine’s research explores the intermediation of
relationships between the state, communities and citizens, recently
focusing on the politics and practice of community work participation
and co-production. She has a passionate interest in how research can
support progressive social change.
Dave Harte is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications
and Award Leader for the MA in Social Media at Birmingham City
University. His main research interests are on the role that community
news websites play in fostering citizenship. His research into the
scale and scope of hyperlocal publishing in the UK was part of a
large Connected Communities research project focused on Creative
Citizenship. He has a background in working with local and regional
policy-makers on developing the creative economy and has managed
projects with a focus on supporting creative businesses.
Phil Jones is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University
of Birmingham and Principal Investigator on a £1.5 million AHRC-
funded project Cultural Intermediation and the Creative Urban
Economy (2012–16). He has published widely on cities, including
work on sustainability and regeneration as well as arts and creative
methods. Along with James Evans, Phil is co-author of the book
Urban regeneration in the UK (second edition, 2013) and has co-edited
the collection Creative economies, creative communities: Rethinking place,
policy and practice (2015) with Saskia Warren.
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Amadu Wurie Khan has been Research Associate in the AHRC-
funded Connected Communities project Community Hacking and
Web 2.0 at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is currently reviewing
the social design and functionality issues around co-production of the
Digital Sentinel newspaper, which is one of the community-generated
digital outputs of the project. His research interests include the
sociology and ethnography of the design and applications of digital
media and public artwork by and among ‘disadvantaged’ communities.
Antonia Layard is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. Her
research is in law and geography where she explores how law, legality
and maps construct space, place and ‘the local’. She has particular
interests in ‘urban law’’, and the legal provisions and practices involved
in large-scale regeneration and infrastructure projects. Antonia teaches
courses on property, planning and environmental law and has been
involved in a number of AHRC Connected Communities projects.
More information on her research and copies of pre-publication papers
can be found at http://antonialayard.com.
Colin Lorne is an urban and cultural geographer who has undertaken
his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research brings
together interests in architecture and the built environment, changing
working practices and contemporary urban society. His recent research
brings a critical geographic perspective to the ‘entrepreneurial’ spaces
and practices of co-working. Other interests involve engaging with
architects who are expanding the role of design beyond buildings as
well as the Localism Act 2011 in the UK, with particular focus upon
how communities are engaging in Neighbourhood Planning exercises
with minimal resources.
Peter Matthews is Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of
Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, UK. In his research
he is particularly interested in urban policy, urban inequalities and
community engagement and empowerment. Research projects have
focused on co-producing engagement and research with communities
within marginalised neighbourhoods and understanding the motivations
and consequences of engagement by the affluent.
Martin Maudsley is a professional storyteller based in Dorset working
across the UK in theatres, festivals, schools, village halls, museums
and often outdoors. Martin also works with national organisations
providing storytelling performances, commissioned projects and
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creative workshops. Recent clients include the BBC, Bristol Festival
of Nature, Cheltenham Festivals of Science and Literature, the Eden
Project, English Heritage, the National Trust, River Cottage HQ and
the Soil Association.
Morag McDermont is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the
University of Bristol Law School, and Principal Investigator for two
research programmes: New Sites of Legal Consciousness: A Case
Study of UK Advice Agencies and Productive Margins: Regulating
for Engagement. Her research has been shaped by 15 years’ working
in local government and voluntary sector housing organisations. She
has published two books: Regulating social housing: Governing decline
(Glasshouse, 2006) with Dave Cowan; and Governing, independence
and expertise: The business of housing associations (Hart, 2010), a study of
the historical role played by the National Housing Federation in the
governance of social housing
Max Nathan is Deputy Director of the What Works Centre for Local
Economic Growth, a collaboration between the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Centre for Cities and Arup,
which aims to improve the use of evidence and impact evaluation in
local economic development. He is also a Senior Research Fellow
at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Max has
over 15 years’ public policy experience in think tanks, consultancy and
government, most recently at Department for Communities and Local
Government (DCLG) as an ESRC–DCLG-funded policy advisor.
Max also co-founded the Centre for Cities, where he ran the research
programme for the Centre’s first three years. He writes in a personal
capacity, not that of the What Works Centre.
Dave O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths,
University of London. He has worked on several Connected
Communities projects, exploring early career researchers’ experiences,
dementia and imagination, and the creative economy. His most recent
book is Cultural policy, published by Routledge.
Kate Pahl is Professor of Literacies in Education at the University
of Sheffield. She is interested in everyday literacies in home and
community contexts. Her most recent book Materializing Literacies in
Communities is published by Bloomsbury Academic Press. Her work
is currently concerned with the role of artists in community projects,
and with the cultural context of civic engagement.
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Martin Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of
Leicester. His research interests involve four broad areas of geography:
rural social and cultural geography, historical geography, society/
environment relations, and philosophy in geography. Much of his recent
work has focused on the material and symbolic constructions of rural
space, with particular regard to the social relations and identities of
class and gender. He is also conducting work on museum geographies,
retail-led gentrification, filmic geographies and adaptations to climate
change.
Sheffield-based artist Steve Pool originally trained as a sculptor. He
now works as a visual artists in multiple media to help people realise
ideas, often making physical objects or changing environments. For
the past 25 years he has worked on many initiatives including Creative
Partnerships, Public Understanding of Science, and regeneration
through area-based renewal programmes. He has an interest in stories,
objects and research. He works in varied settings including art galleries,
communities and more recently universities through the AHRC
Connecting Communities programme. Central to his work is the belief
that access to new technologies offers many opportunities for people
to produce as well as consume culture. 
Hilary Ramsden is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance at
the Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales. Hilary’s
arts-led research practice involves participatory and collaborative
experiments to interrupt our assumptions and perceptions about our
relationship with our surroundings and wider environment. Since
2000 she has been exploring everyday walking habits and creating
interventions that open our eyes and hearts to the potential alternative
use of public spaces.
Liz Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of
Undergraduate Studies for Politics at the University of Manchester.
She is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
(CASE) at LSE, and a board member for national charities the National
Association of Neighbourhood Management and the National
Communities Resource Centre. Her work is dedicated to trying out
ways in which academics, practitioners, and citizens can develop more
democratic and participatory ways of doing politics.
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