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Participation and local urban regeneration in the UK: the case of the New Deal for Communities

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Lorna Dargan

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Abstract

The contention of this paper is that the policy discourses of ‘community’ and of ‘participation’ underpinning area-based regeneration programmes are overly simplistic, and their use in regeneration policy is, as a consequence, highly problematic. Based on an analysis of regeneration partnership in the north of England, this paper will demonstrate that, while partnership members share the same levels of access in decision-making structures, the members of partnership boards have such different understandings of the purpose of participation and the role of residents in the regeneration process that it has created conflict serious enough to affect delivery of regeneration.

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Author(s): Dargan L

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Regional Studies

Year: 2009

Volume: 43

Issue: 2

Pages: 305-317

ISSN (print): 0034-3404

ISSN (electronic): 1360-0591

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343400701654244

DOI: 10.1080/00343400701654244

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