I’d like you to imagine for a moment … we are standing on the banks of the River Thames. We are going ‘mudlarking’ – combing the shore – to discover British experience of how place-based leveraging of social ecologies is changing the fortunes of people and their city environments and how cities are breaking the public-policy impasse of recent decades that has allowed the wellbeing of significant parts of their places to be forgotten, to be placed in the ‘too difficult’ box. Our mudlark began by observing numerous signs of the public policy impasse facing cities, including: a ‘new normal’ of perma-austerity, with unsustainable rises in demand for services that were conceived for different times […]
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