A future for regeneration (updated and expanded)
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This presentation brings together key points from the Real Regeneration series in New Start magazine and headlines from the regeneration manifesto we developed with practitioners and policy experts. An earlier version of this presentation was given at the fifth anniversary celebrations of Powell Dobson Urbanists in Cardiff. I've blogged about it here: http://livingwithrats.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-all-about-social-justice.html
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A future for regeneration (updated and expanded)
- 1. A future for regeneration Julian Dobson New Start magazine
- 2. > ≠∞ [we can’t go on like this]
- 3. Why not? Austerity Uncertainty Climate change
- 4. Seven regeneration principles for today
- 6. 2 Let go – or get out of the way
- 7. 3 Recognise communities’ potential
- 8. 4 Keep tackling inequality
- 9. 5 Focus on education and skills
- 10. 6 Promote quality of life and quality of place
- 11. 7 Reform the banking system
- 12. … but we will have to find different ways of getting there
- 13. A dozen hints of hope
- 14. 1 Find a shared language
- 17. 2 Measure real value, not just GVA
- 19. The UK security industry is worth £6bn a year. Is that a sign of a flourishing society?
- 20. 3 Recognise that climate change changes everything
- 22. Five principles of sustainable development: • living within environmental limits • ensuring a strong, healthy and just society • achieving a sustainable economy • promoting good governance • using sound science responsibly Securing the Future , 2005
- 23. 4 Neighbourhoods are the building blocks
- 25. ‘ There is a lot of jargon about regeneration... but really, as a resident, there is only one question. Is this an area I want my children to grow up in?’ Quoted in evaluation of Guide Neighbourhoods Programme, 2009
- 26. 5 Get to grips with the housing market
- 28. In 1993 an average-priced house in Kensington would buy you two average-priced houses in Leven, Fife. By 2003 a Kensington home would buy 24 comparable properties in Leven. National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, 2009
- 29. 6 Work is only part of the solution to poverty
- 31. In 1902 the employment rate for 15-64 year olds in the UK was 69%. In 2000 the employment rate was 71%. Office for National Statistics, 2003
- 32. 7 Connectedness is at the heart of community
- 34. ‘ If you look back at the input into areas like this by professionals in the last 30 years, it’s resulted in guns on the street. Professionals will work with you for a few years and then bugger off. When you are a tenants’ organisation and your underpants are on the washing line you can’t pretend to be something you aren’t.’ Julie Fawcett
- 35. 8 Responsiveness must be at the heart of government
- 37. ‘ I do not believe that government should stand in the way of innovation, or turn back the clock to an older era of regulation. But I do believe that government has a role to play in advancing our common prosperity…’ Barack Obama
- 38. 9 Distinctiveness is the future for place
- 40. ‘ Sheffield… is a city where men call each other “love” and women eat hot pork sandwiches…’
- 41. 10 The value of the built environment lies in its use
- 43. ‘ Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.’ Jane Jacobs
- 44. 11 Doing good must be at the heart of doing well
- 46. When the Stranger says: ‘What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?’ What will you answer? ‘We all dwell together To make money from each other’? or ‘This is a community’? T S Eliot, Choruses from the Rock
- 47. 12 The soul of the city is what drives regeneration
- 49. ‘ The soul of a city - the strength that makes it breathe, exist and progress - resides in each one of its citizens’ Jaime Lerner
- 50. > ≠ [the same road won’t lead us home]
- 51. Join the discussion www.regenfuture.org
- 52. More from me at: New Start magazine : www.newstartmag.co.uk Living with Rats : http:livingwithrats.blogspot.com Twitter : www.twitter.com/juliandobson Slideshare : www.slideshare.net/juliandobson
Editor's Notes
- Slide 1. The idea that we can infinitely add more to what we currently have underpins most ‘regeneration’ strategies. Produce more cars every year; build more roads for them to travel on; build and rent out more office space; build more city centre apartments; create more shopping centres. Economic and placemaking strategies frequently fail to recognise limits to environmental resources, consumer demand, and communities’ capacity to withstand disruption. It’s an approach that values excess above sufficiency, sees waste as an economic good and reduces human wellbeing and life satisfaction to a byproduct of economic activity.
- Slide 6: That means rethinking our approach to funding programmes, targets and accountability and creating new, hybrid organisations that bring together those who have a common interest in improving places and communities. Nobody has a monopoly of ideas and nobody should have a monopoly of implementation.
- We need a new sense of home: places and communities that we value, feel safe in and where we share a sense of ownership with those around us. Most of the programmes and solutions of the last few decades have failed to achieve this, or have begun promisingly but fizzled out. It’s time to trust people to do this themselves.