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In the UK, the Labour government (1997-2010) introduced various experiments to uplift English regional and sub-regional spatial strategy to a more prominent position in sub-national governance but much of this has been subsequently guillotined by the incoming Coalition government in May 2010. This paper assesses the prospect for the survival of strategic spatial thinking under the Coalition government's ethos of 'localism'. It first considers some of the broad conceptual issues relating to strategic spatial planning, identifying three key conundrums around flexibility of scaling, institutional structures and capacity, and core values and forms of knowledge. It then provides one of the first comprehensive accounts of what was achieved during the outgoing Labour administration, and what ultimately went wrong with the English regional planning project. Finally, an initial assessment is made of the future prospects for strategic planning in England to survive in new spatial contexts, despite the hostile conditions associated with the Coalition government. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Since its recent overhaul, the British planning system has placed a strong emphasis on the development of 'spatial' rather than purely 'land-use' plans, and on the importance of adopting a systematic approach towards strategy monitoring. Such an evidence-based approach to spatial planning is already in use at the pan-European level and in Northern America. The authors aim to discuss the latest methodological developments in the monitoring of complex spatial strategies by examining the monitoring framework for local development documents in England. They examine the concept of spatial planning, issues and challenges surrounding spatial policy monitoring, and some emerging views over policy monitoring and evaluation. They then discuss the relevance of these latest ideas and different design principles of indicator frameworks to underpin the development of a monitoring framework for local development documents. Six core design components are discussed: the structure – performance model; the objectives – targets – indicators approach; a nested hierarchy of indicators; a framework of indicators; the use of analytical indicator bundles; and analytical principles. The authors identify the gaps and challenges in the developing monitoring framework for spatial planning in England and the wider, transferable, lessons to be learnt for complex policy monitoring.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Notes on the editors; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Peter Roberts; 1 Learning about sustainable communities by Robert Rogerson, Sue Sadler, Anne Green and Cecilia Wong; 2 Educating built environment professionals for stakeholder engagement by Sarah Sayce and Judith Farren-Bradley; 3 Generic skills and workplace learning: supporting professional development through online learning communities by Ann Hockey, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, Janice Maclean and Martin Spaul. - 4 Developing the learning potential of strategic environmental assessment in spatial planning by Sue Kidd, Thomas Fischer and Urmila Jha-Thakur5 Situated learning and the delivery of built environments for sustainable communities by Ian Smith; 6 Understanding and experimenting with skills for community planning by Brendan Murtagh and Geraint Ellis; 7 Raising catchment consciousness: how imaginative engagement can help sustainable use of rivers by Paul Selman, Claudia Carter, Clare Morgan and Anna Lawrence. - 8 Confronting sustainable community issues in a contested city by Ken Sterrett and Frank Gaffikin9 'Chain gang conservation': young people and environmental volunteering by Michael Leyshon and Robert Fish; 10 Action research to promote leadership and agency in developing sustainable schools and communities by Barry Percy-Smith; 11 The future of sustainable communities by Robert Rogerson and Sue Sadler; Bibliography; Index

This paper examines how Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character originally created by American cartoonist Matt Furie, and currently a global digital image-meme of online activism, was adopted and adapted in Hong Kong during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill and Law Movement (??????????; faan deoi tou faan tiu lai sau ding wan dung) (hereafter: anti-ELAB Movement) on one of the most prevalent protest platforms, the LIHKG forum (LIHKG??). We combined a computational big data analysis of the posts' metadata and a qualitative analysis of the Hong Kong Pepe image-meme to examine how it contributed to highly emotive and contentious discussions about the future of Hong Kong. The aim is to reveal how activists on this platform framed this imported image-meme to make statements about Hong Kong politics, as well as gender and democracy. The scope of visual content on social media today creates an opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and new methodological approaches that combine a scaling of large quantities of images with representative sampling and theories of online activism. Our theoretical interest aims at documenting how activists reveled in various visual cultures and adopted the image-meme within social media discourse. We are equally interested in identifying the gender representations of these figures and how they drove emotional responses and discussions during the movement's high points. The Anti-ELAB protests and the LIHKG forum were specifically characterized by a large participation of younger women. Alongside the proposition for Hong Kong self-determination, the forum hosted discussions about the role of female activists within the struggle. Since Pepe had previously been adopted by xenophobic alt-right groups and the misogynist "manosphere," we monitored and interpreted recurring Pepe-imagery to find out how normative-conservative, or gender-fluid and emancipatory tropes were used on the LIHKG forum.