Reviewing and developing the Scottish regeneration scene

‘Innovation or institutional clutter?’

Greg Lloyd

Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum Annual Conference 2006

DundeeMarch 10, 2006

Overview

To review the emerging development of urban regeneration in Scotland.

To identify what represents innovation or institutional clutter.

To consider a way forward.

The urban challenge – degeneration, regeneration and connectivity

History, culture and identity of urban change and development.

Devolution and new spatial economic agendas.

Scalar relative economic performances – between and within urban areas.

Differential institutional arrangements & infrastructure deficits – ‘planning backwards’.

‘Pariah’ urban change – growth, decline and ‘trickle down’.

Social democratic Influence 1945-1979

Neo-liberal influence

1979-1997

Third Way agenda

1997 to the present

Thesis of market failure;

Keynesian & expenditure based;

Passive citizens;

Overcrowded & rational state.

Anti-thesis of government failure;

‘Supply-side’ & competitive;

Clients;

Fragmented & weakened state

Synthesis of ideas;

‘Supply-side’ & competitive;

Active citizens

Congested state.

Social democratic Influence 1945-1979

Neo-liberal influence

1979-1997

Third Way agenda

1997 to the present

National & regional economic policy emphasis

Regional development agencies

Inner city agenda – 1960s.

Property market focus

Enterprise Zones & UDCs

New Life for Urban Scotland

Priority Partnership Areas

Devolution, public sector relocation & city-regions

BIDs & URCs

SIPs & community planning

Regeneration policy statement

Third Way modernisation

Egan Review 2003

Lyons Review 2004

Gershon Review 2004

Barker Report 2005

Hampton Review 2005

Arculus Report 2005

Audit Commission 2006

Parallel ideas: The congested state?

Evidence Cities Review 2001

Political Partnership Agreement 2003

Policy Framework of Economic

Development in Scotland 2004

Smart Successful Scotland 2004

Modernising Planning White Paper 2005

Planning etc (Scotland) Bill 2006

Infrastructure Statement 2005

City regions

Community planning

Regeneration statement 2006

Towards the organic state?

Scalar tensions – space versus place

Strategic versus local

Territory versus theme

Efficiency versus inclusion

Integration versus fragmentation

Voluntarism versus contractualisation