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Ten things we didn't learn about regeneration

October 24, 2010 by julian dobson
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On Saturday I was in East London for the Not A Gateway festival, a celebration of urban difficulties – a place where artists, urbanists, students and community activists got together to explore the complexities of city life and, importantly, how social justice fits into narratives that are still largely dictated by the property industry. [read more]

The Story Creates the Place: Placemaking and Community Planning

May 18, 2010 by julian dobson
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Attempt to capture the character of a place and, if you're not careful, you soon resort to stereotypes and clichés. Or, if you're a little bit careful, you eschew the stereotypes and come out with something equally distorting. Try to grasp the essence of Scotland and you soon find there are few universals. Scottish rural and... [read more]

What is a regenerative development—really?

March 18, 2010 by Pamela Mang
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Ahmad Nadalian The idea of regeneration has clearly caught hold in the building and community development world. It’s starting to show up everywhere. But how can we tell whether a project is or will be regenerative? In embracing the term, are we in danger of demeaning its power if we don’t fully understand it?  Is it just green... [read more]

Stop talking about the knowledge economy. Start building a wisdom economy.

February 20, 2010 by julian dobson
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We know we're in the middle of seismic shifts in the way the world operates. We don't know where they'll end up, or where any of us will be when the dust settles, if it ever does. Will we have a job? A pension? A home? Someone to care for us in old age? We do know, though, that we'll need to be more resilient, more adaptable, and more... [read more]

Regeneration: your starter for ten

February 10, 2010 by julian dobson
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Regeneration - time to think differently View more presentations from Julian Dobson. Today I'm chairing a discussion on the future of regeneration in the UK. Three organisations - New Start magazine, Shared Intelligence and Urbed - have got together to get this conversation going, and we're looking forward to being joined by a... [read more]

Learning? That's so 2007!

February 7, 2010 by julian dobson
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We can, you can: lessons in regeneration View more documents from Julian Dobson. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard people who are passionate about improving their communities complain about how quickly officials take their eye off the ball. Here's another example: the regional centre of excellence for... [read more]

Warning: Dementors at large

February 4, 2010 by julian dobson
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Watch out - there's a Dementor about. Dementors, as fans of the Harry Potter books will know, suck the soul from their victims. We don't have such hooded monsters in real life, but we do have people, organisations and businesses that suck the soul from communities and insist on calling it regeneration. Today's news that the Foundry in... [read more]