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Written in an engaging and accessible style, How to save our town centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all

Written in an engaging and accessible style, How to Save Our Town Centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, How to save our town centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all

Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete? How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and 'shop local' campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship between people and places is changing; how business is done and who benefits; and how the use and ownership of land affects us all. Written in an engaging and accessible style and illustrated with numerous original interviews, the book sets out a comprehensive and coherent agenda for long-term, citizen-led change. It will be a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers in planning, architecture and the built environment, economic development and community participation

The role of the third sector in promoting action on carbon reduction is often that of a third party, lobbying and working from the sidelines and occupying 'green niches' (Seyfang, 2010) without direct access to levers of power. This article examines how visions of low-carbon futures promoted by third sector actors are both integrated and marginalised at a wider institutional scale. Focusing on efforts to encourage environmental sustainability by organisations within three northern English cities, it highlights how a process of 'integrative marginalisation' may be observed, in which radical visions of a low-carbon future are simultaneously embraced and excluded at an institutional scale. Integrative marginalisation displays four salient features: initial welcome and acceptance; relatively small investments of support; the exclusion of substantial changes from mainstream decision making; and the assertion of institutional priorities that limit potential action. Integrative marginalisation thus raises questions about the conditions required to prompt more fundamental change.

1. Why the Time Is Right for a Civic Turn -- 2. A Question of Leadership -- 3. How should universities understand their social impact? -- 4. Can Universities be Climate Leaders? -- 5. How Universities Can Help to Build a Healthier Society -- 6. Civic Universities and Culture: A Tilted View -- 7. More-Than-Civic: Higher Education and Civil Society in Post-Industrial Localities -- 8. Placemaking for the Civic University: Interface Sites as Spaces of Tension and Translation -- 9. Bringing Civic Impact to Life.

Chapter 1. Why practice doesn't make perfect: the challenges of translating greenspace knowledge into action -- Chapter 2. Contesting longstanding conceptualisations of urban green space -- Chapter 3. What is urban nature and how do we perceive it? -- Chapter 4. Naturally feeling good? Exploring our complex relationships with urban nature -- Chapter 5. Can we really value nature? Contesting the costs and benefits of urban green space -- Chapter 6. Mind the gap: does what we know about greenspace and wellbeing change what we do? -- Chapter 7. The challenges of changing governance: curating new civic identities for health and wellbeing -- Chapter 8. What about the 'not-so-good' practice? Examining urban green space interventions post-implementation -- Chapter 9. Realigning knowing and doing: an agenda for reflection and action.

Since its onset in 2020 Covid-19 impacts have engendered rapid interventions across all policy domains and at all scales of government. This has prompted lively debate around the wider significance and longer-term implications of such moves with regard to their role as potential 'punctuations' within a broader policy paradigm shift. This includes acting as a 'path-clearing' mechanism that heralds a move towards a different approach; representing the onset of 'path deviation' towards such a change; quickly adding to the implementation of new ideas in a process of 'policy acceleration'; or essentially replicating existing patterns to provide 'trend reinforcement'. This paper applies these concepts to a wide range of evidence on local government responses to Covid-19 across the United Kingdom (UK). The analysis focuses on five selected domains: supporting and coordinating mutual aid; maintaining local economies; addressing homelessness; managing parks and other public spaces; and promoting active travel through road space reallocation. Developments in each of these areas are framed by both wider operational and existing policy contexts, as well as with respect to geographical and sectoral variations. The conclusion is that evidence exists for all four types of 'punctuation', but the patterns are inconsistent both between and within different local authorities and policy domains.