Austerity in rural England…. any glimmers in the darkness?
There has been so much speculation and projection about the scale and impacts of future public austerity measures.
Posted on Friday, 22nd January 2010 | This entry has 3 comment(s)
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If not now, then when? If not us, then who?
How serious are we about asking the difficult questions about our futures and grappling with the issues they raise?
Posted on Tuesday, 19th January 2010 | This entry has 3 comment(s)
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Why Heseltine is wrong man to lead on regeneration
Why, given the failure of all Michael Heseltine’s prior efforts at regeneration, are we bringing him back to advise the Conservative Party on a ‘green paper’?
‘Failure’, I hear you exclaim, ‘but surely Hezza’s a regeneration superstar?’ Followed I guess by talking about intervening every verse end, clearing vast swathes of industrial land in northern cities and cutting through the ‘red tape’ by handing planning powers to development corporations. Plus Docklands of course.
Posted on Monday, 18th January 2010 | This entry has 6 comment(s)
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US citizens lead charge towards better banking
A few months ago I wrote about what we can learn from the US banking system (albeit a system that caused the global credit crunch and subsequent recession). Last week President Obama announced a new "financial crisis responsibility fee" to claw back some of the public funds …
Posted on Monday, 18th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
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The big WHY?
There's an awful lot of advice out there at the moment, about how to cope with / take advantage of / simply survive the new economic and social climate (not to mention the environmental one) which we are assured we now all face.
Well, I'm sure it's true …
Posted on Sunday, 17th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
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Community contracts - refreshing or recycling?
Are Community Contracts just another in a long line of recycled ideas indicative of a deeper poverty of ambition at the heart of government?
Surely we have had similar pilots since at least the 1970s.
What immediately arises from the …
Posted on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
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Five challenges on the way to rethinking growth
Unless you're a redneck, a dinosaur or a Pollyanna, you'll probably agree with the proposition that we need to reduce our collective impact on the environment.
Posted on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 | This entry has 1 comment(s)
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Scrap the deluded principles of economic regeneration
At a recent conference, I heard an otherwise sane academic tell us that the principles of regeneration – which were sound in the good times – will see us through the bad times.
Posted on Thursday, 7th January 2010 | This entry has 16 comment(s)
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Olympic organisers plan for festival atmosphere
Tim Henman may never have won Wimbledon, but the former world number four tennis player has made a mark on an even bigger British sporting event – the London 2012 Olympics.
Posted on Wednesday, 6th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
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Why is it so hard to be soft?
Soft and hard are strange words. They carry a lot of baggage, a lot of it gender-based. And much of it involves value-judgements that are questionable at best.
Posted on Wednesday, 6th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
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Here’s some more information about the passing of Bura from chair Jackie Sadek:
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Rosie Niven on 2nd September 2010:
Life after Bura I worked in “regeneration” 1996 to 2009. My last job in this sector was for University College London and was in the built environment. I remember, very suddenly after starting that job in 2007, suddenly seeing BURA at almost every turn; the organisation was exceptionally well represented in this field. …
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daniel gilbert on 31st August 2010:
Life after Bura Grateful for all the supportive comments about BURA and about the need for some continuing action, particularly on the awards. All ideas and offers of help and involvement are very welcome. We are determined not to lose the accumulated knowledge and connections. Watch this space
Paul Evans
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Paul Evans on 26th August 2010:
Life after Bura
- From: Kevin Harris
- Street party guide
- Home is where you can park your car
- Neighbourliness designed-in
- From: Rob Greenland
- Big Society – a question of time?
- Milk and Playgrounds
- Social housing
- From: Julian Dobson
- A Big Society that works
- A code of conduct for urbanists
- Air can hurt you too
- From: Toby Blume
- How can 60% interest for a credit card be too high, but 60,000% is okay?
- Money men join calls for tougher bank regulation
- Will banking be better in the Big Society?
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