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This documentary booklet based on authors' photographs and local eye-witness comments traces radical social and economic change in seven European post-industrial cities.
Their cataclysmic decline and rebuilding has put them at the heart of national and international political ferment, spurring them on to uncover new ways of doing things. They showcase how former industrial heartlands across Europe can recover. Global population pressures and continuing migration, loss of investment and global fi nancial upheaval, climate change and resource limits, pose unknown threats to the future of cities, but these cities are at the cutting edge of new solutions.
Existing infrastructure, transport connections and dense services, a tradition of invention and innovation, are leading them to pioneer exciting new ideas. Big resources are tied into these places.
In our crowded continent, existing assets are constantly redeployed to cope with new shortages. Space, energy and the natural environment are three resources that drove growth in these cities. Innovative reuse of these fi nite resources propels 'clapped out' cities back to life, while the infectious spread of new ideas drives successful experiments in urban recovery.
The seven cities share an uncertain future with the rest of the globe but Tale of 7 Cities illustrates building blocks of recovering places that may survive and indeed flourish in a more sustainable world.
Download Tale of 7 Cities , in Adobe PDF format.
You may also like to download a flyer for the publication, or read a review by Time Magazine
News Posted: 18 December 2008 [ Back to the Top]
Can Existing Homes and Communities halve their CO² Emissions?
Learning from Germany's Experience
Chaired by:
- Jonathon Porritt, Chair, Sustainable Development Commission and Founder Director, Forum for the Future,
- Colin Butfield, Head of Campaigns, WWF and Chair, Existing Homes Alliance, and
- Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics
This event took place at:
Dates and Venues:
Date: 10th December 2008
Venue: London School of Economics
Time: 9.15am - 4.30pm (registration 8.45am - 9.15am)
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News Posted: 28 November 2008 [ Back to the Top]
CASEreport55 is an independent account of the work of the Incommunities About Turn project to support households in difficulty with their tenancy.
The project has run for 3 years and has a track record in dealing with difficult tenancies. LSE Housing examined tenancy records, evidence from staff interviews and family development, in order to highlight how much progress has been made, what barriers and difficulties are faced now and how this work fits within the wider Bradford city and national context.
The aim of the report is to present an overview of the costs and benefits of this project from the perspective of new social priorities in the housing world and its difficulties with the most marginal tenants.
The report is available to download at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport55.pdf
News Posted: 20 July 2008 [ Back to the Top]
'Teach in'on Energy and Existing Homes:
Restoring neighbourhoods and slowing climate change
Read the Seminar report of this event published as Paper No' CASEreport 56, July 2008
Full paper 
A seminar/workshop organised by LSE Housing and CASE, sponsored by HOME group
Dates and Venues:
Date: Friday 6th June 2008
Venue: Michio Morishima conference room (R505), 5th floor LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, London School of Economics
Time: 9.00am-1.30pm (registration & breakfast 8.30-8.55am; lunch from 1.30pm)
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Date: Thursday 26th June 2008
Venue: Trafford Hall, Chester
Time: 10.30am-3.15pm (registration 09.45am; lunch from 1.15pm)
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Introduction
Homes already built account for 99 per cent of our total housing stock and we estimate that 86 per cent of the current stock will still be in use in 2050. Building new homes is carbon intensive and carries many wider environmental impacts. But the existing stock can be made more efficient at a reasonable cost to realise many environmental and social gains. Homes are responsible for 27 per cent of our total CO2 emissions through their energy use, half of public water use, and they generate 8 per cent of total UK waste. Large savings can be achieved using technologies that are readily available, cost effective and cheaper than many alternatives. In addition, construction waste contributes 33 per cent of the total UK waste stream.
This workshop will explore how to retrofit the existing stock. It will demonstrate the links between neighbourhood renewal, social cohesion and energy conservation and we are aiming for an interactive and topical event. Participants include managers of existing homes, regeneration companies, local authorities, and housing association as well as policy makers. The workshop will share experience on how to make the existing stock both more attractive and more energy efficient with big gains for the environment and communities.
The seminar will provide:
- state of the art advice on how to upgrade existing buildings and homes
- animated case studies to inspire participants and shed light on the problems
- networking opportunities with people who are trying to tackle this difficult, but vitally important issue
- top ideas on where to go next
Tackling resource efficiency in existing homes requires a comprehensive package of measures to deliver a step change. But the payback from implementing these changes will be great.
News Posted: 06 June 2008 [ Back to the Top]
Liz Richardson will launch her new publication 'DIY Community Action' - as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - with a seminar at LSE on -
Wednesday 12th March 4.30pm to 6.00pm
- in the Michio Morishima Conference Room (R505), 5th Floor, Research Laboratory, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD.
This event is FREE but booking is essential.
An informal drinks reception will follow this event.
To request a seat for this event, please contact Anna Tamas Email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk; Tel: +44(0)20-7955-6562.
About the Book
How people can be persuaded to take more control of their own lives continues to be a subject of policy and academic debate, and the contribution of active citizens to improving societal well-being is high across different policy agendas. But the promotion of community self-help raises a wide range of questions for people working in neighbourhoods, for policy makers, for politicians, and for residents themselves about how we promote engagement, what would motivate people to become active, and more fundamentally about the ongoing relevance and value of community activity.
DIY Community Action offers thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. It presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on contested debates, and proposes ways forward for community building.
This timely publication is an engaging resource for policy makers, practitioners, academics, students and general readers interested in exploring community engagement and active citizenship.
Liz Richardson: DIY Community Action: Neighbourhood problems and community self-help. Bristol: Policy Press.
Paperback £23.99 ISBN 9781847420848 ---- Hardback £65.00 ISBN 9781847420855
To order this book please see www.policypress.org.uk
News Posted: 12 March 2008 [ Back to the Top]
Organised in conjunction with the University of Manchester and the London School of Economics, the 'DIY Community Action' seminar will take place on
Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th March 2008
at the National Communities Resource Centre, Trafford Hall
Ince Lane, Wimbolds Trafford, Near Chester, CH2 4JP
Community engagement is hot on the policy agenda. But the promotion of community action continues to raise a huge number of questions for people working in neighbourhoods, for policy makers, for politicians, and for residents themselves: Is it patronising residents to talk of community self-help?
What legitimacy do community representatives have? What stimulates people to get involved? Does it matter that only a minority are involved? What is the relevance of community given a fast changing society? How can participatory democracy and representative democracy work together? How can we promote engagement? What relevance and value does small-scale community activity have?
This exciting seminar event offers some answers to these questions, a chance to debate the issue, see what others have done, and develop new policy and practice ideas.
Download the flyer and programme for this event in Adobe PDF format.
To book a place at this event, please contact Chris Locker Email: c.locker@traffordhall.com; Tel: +44(0)1244 301 513
About the Book
Liz Richardson: DIY Community Action: Neighbourhood problems and community self-help. Bristol: Policy Press.
Paperback £23.99 ISBN 9781847420848 ---- Hardback £65.00 ISBN 9781847420855
To order this book please see www.policypress.org.uk
News Posted: 10 March 2008 [ Back to the Top]
Speaker: Bruce Katz, Vice President Brookings Institution and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
Wednesday 27th February 4.30-6pm, followed by an informal reception
Michio Morishima Conference Room (R505), 5th floor, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, LSE, WC2A 2AE
We are delighted to welcome back Bruce Katz from the Brookings Institution who will offer his insights into the American Election and the state of the American Economy. His close involvement with Democratic politics, and city and state governments across the US will make this an exciting and up-to-the-minute seminar. Bruce Katz was Chief of Staff to Henry Cisneros (Secretary of State for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) in the Clinton administration. He is a Visiting Professor in CASE at the London School of Economics and an ex-LSE student.
An informal drinks reception will follow this event.
This event is free but booking is essential.
To request a seat for this event, please contact Anna Tamas email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk, tel: +44(0)20-7955-6562.
News Posted: 27 February 2008 [ Back to the Top]
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