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'Spatial Justice': Towards a values-led framework of regeneration outcomes in UK planning
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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:46 authored by Sarah J. Bissett ScottDo planners and policy-makers perceive philosophical underpinnings of UK regeneration
as relevant to practice? The contention of this thesis is that such a basis is lacking for
regeneration to deliver more spatially just outcomes over time. Would a framework led
by values help improve future results for spatial interventions, in terms of the deep
values sought in a liberal democratic society? The main objective of this research is to
explore the possibility of developing an evaluative framework for ‘spatial justice’ based
on investigating a suite of interventions, to determine what values could be attributable
to measured outcomes.
The research takes a real-world phenomenological approach applied through a case
study methodology. Qualitative data are collected from historical document analysis,
interviews and a survey, codified over time and by governance level, and compared with
benchmarking data. The main case study is located in North Kensington, part of a west
London borough, over a forty-year timespan. A secondary study tests the mediating
contribution of geography and time by examining a regional city centre neighbourhood in
Peterborough. The research is informed by professional practice at a regional and
strategic level and from a local perspective.
The study explores an existing gap of how to express spatial outcomes linked to liberal
democratic values: it examines how articulated values and a nuanced approach to
regionalized governance might aid better regeneration outcomes. Findings point towards
the usefulness of connected indicators (proxies for deep values) translating into a
terminology of ‘spatial justice’.
The Colville-Tavistock case study contributes to theory and practice by crossreferencing
Liberalism’s deep values with regeneration vision and outcomes, through
the four-decade longitudinal study. The research offers a basis for appraising strategic
spatial interventions, with potential for a ‘values-led impact analysis’ in terms other than
financial: those of spatial justice values sought in a liberal democracy.
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Anglia Ruskin UniversityFile version
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- eng
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- PhD
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- Doctoral
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2018-10-31Legacy creation date
2018-10-31Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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