Pub Date : 1996-08-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949608726317
G. Chanan
Gabriel Chanan is Director of Dissemination at the Community Development Foundation Is "regeneration" the plugging of a gap in an otherwise flourishing society, or a frontier of innovation for a society in trouble? The rationale of regeneration policy is about the plugging of gaps. But the experience of grass-roots innovation suggests something more fundamental. Areas to be "regenerated" are identified by concentrations of disadvantage, and funding is dedicated to improvements in the relevant indicators. European funding is about areas that are "lagging behind" or "suffering industrial decline". The word "regeneration" suggests at first sight a repair job, and presumably a successfully regenerated area is known by the fact that its incidence of disadvantage moves nearer to the norm. But the struggle that people in disadvantaged areas engage in to make life bearable and meaningful does not feel simply like a struggle to achieve the sort of life that is already lived in an "advanced" area. It feels more like a struggle to change the way we live. Certainly it is a struggle to achieve better material security. But it is also a struggle to achieve a better relationship between all parts of society, and all parts of the world, because it is somehow that overall relationship which points toward either healing or disintegration for all of us. The basic building block of participatory democracy, the community group, is a wheel that does have to be invented again and again, because only those who have created it for themselves have really got it. When parents get together to start a voluntary youth club, or pensioners get together to save a sub-post office, or people get together to discuss how to cope with health problems, much more happens than would be supposed from the immediate objective. An emerging sense of common purpose and joint action changes the way we see the larger systems and forces in which we are embedded. My baptism into community activity was through a residents' campaign to get a disused police station turned into a local arts centre. I thought I knew a fair amount about public issues, but the first lesson of the experience was that none of my privileged education had given me the slightest inkling as to how local amenities came into existence or were destroyed. The Byzantine ways of local
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Pub Date : 1995-02-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949508726250
Asitha Nicholas Panditharatna Phelps
It has been suggested that recent organisational change centred on functional integration, outsourcing and upskilling has raised prospects of economic development in peripheral regions. This paper examines the character of a new industry in an older industrial region for signs of such upgrading and increased local embeddedness. The paper discusses recent organisational change in the South Wales automotive component industry. Despite some organisational innovation, the main elements of the branch plant syndrome remain apparent in the South Wales automotive components industry.
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Pub Date : 1995-02-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949508726251
David Monder Deakins Ram
This paper develops issues in enterprise support and research with support agencies discussed in a previous paper (Deakins, 1993). We compare the system of enterprise support in the UK with the role of Chambers of Commerce and local authority support provision in Germany and France through data from interviews in three regions and specific focus on three cities/ towns; Birmingham in the West Midlands, Pforzheim in BadenWurttemberg and Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne. Criticisms of the duplication of support effort and the lack of coordination have led to the establishment of the first Business Links in the UK. To some extent, these are intended to follow the German model of coordination and the re-focusing of support away from start-ups to existing firms that have 20-200 employees. We are critical of the extent to which Business Links can effectively coordinate enterprise support and target growth firms.
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Pub Date : 1994-11-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949408726237
Fred Keith Robinson Shaw
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Pub Date : 1994-11-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949408726239
Jamie Adam Peck Tickell
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Pub Date : 1994-11-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949408726238
Bob Austen Colenutt Cutten
Community is in vogue. But what does it mean and what could it mean, particularly for the residents of inner city areas and peripheral estates faced with poverty and deprivation and cut off from mainstream economic opportunities? This paper examines the concept of community drawing upon work recently undertaken on community involvement in City Challenge (Docklands Consultative Committee and Barrow Cadbury Trust, 1994). We ask the question, has urban policy really engaged with urban communities, and if not, how could it do so? Urban policy has zigzagged from one set of initiatives to another. Whilst policy has been moulded over time to reflect differing government ideologies seeking to account for the root of the urban malaise, essentially many of Britain's inner cities are still facing the same deep-seated socio-economic problems, identified in the government's 1977 White Paper, A Policy for the Inner Cities. Community involvement in these initiatives has had a chequered history. First, it was a starting point for tackling deprivation in the Urban Priority Areas, and then incorporated into the Community Development Projects of the early 1970s. In the 1980s urban communities reverted to a role as spectators to property-led regeneration. In the 1990s, the word "community" is being extensively employed in the urban debate.
社区正在流行。但这意味着什么，可能意味着什么，特别是对于市中心和周边地区的居民来说，他们面临着贫困和剥夺，与主流经济机会隔绝?本文根据最近在城市挑战(Docklands Consultative Committee and Barrow Cadbury Trust, 1994)中开展的社区参与工作，考察了社区的概念。我们要问的问题是，城市政策真的与城市社区有联系吗?如果没有，它怎么能做到呢?城市政策从一套举措转向另一套举措。虽然随着时间的推移，政策已经被塑造成反映不同的政府意识形态，试图解释城市问题的根源，但本质上，许多英国的内城仍然面临着同样根深蒂固的社会经济问题，这在政府1977年的白皮书《内城政策》中得到了确认。社区参与这些倡议的历史起伏不定。首先，它是解决城市优先地区贫困问题的起点，然后被纳入20世纪70年代初的社区发展项目。在20世纪80年代，城市社区在房地产主导的再生过程中扮演了旁观者的角色。在20世纪90年代，“社区”一词被广泛应用于城市辩论中。
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Pub Date : 1992-11-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949208726148
Lucy de Groot
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Pub Date : 1990-05-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949008726029
C. Allan
Campbell, M., Hardy, M. and Healey, N. (eds) 1989:Controversy in Applied Economics.London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
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