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When Successive Businesses Cannot Survive In The Same Premises Are The Owners Charging Too Much Rent?
This cafe in my local town centre has recently closed down. It hasn’t been there that long – only 3 or so years I’d say. Before that there was another cafe and bakery, owned by a young husband and wife … Continue reading
I’m fed up with our government being a supplicant and a gormless bystander
I’m fed up with our government being a supplicant: ‘We need the inward investors’ ‘We need the the foreign pension funds and companies to invest in us’ ‘We need the foreign sovereign investment funds to invest here’. ‘We need the … Continue reading
The Role of a Manager Is To Enable Others To Get Things Done
I’ve just learnt of a factory in France that has a large sign up that says: “The Manager looks after us. We look after the rest”. This accords with what I have always said: the role of a manager is … Continue reading
Inflation – who is our money going to, what are the consequences, and is anyone in government even asking?
Currently I am reading ‘Beyond the Crash – Overcoming the first crisis of globalisation’, by Gordon Brown, and this has prompted me to jot down here some thoughts which I have had for quite a while. Has anyone explored the … Continue reading
London is ‘A Global City’ – Where Do Londoners Fit Into This?
I have often asked this question, and the latest report to come out of Justspace (https://twitter.com/justspace7/status/1655861269683920897 @Justspace7 on Twitter) has prompted me to say it here: What is the purpose of a ‘Global City’ such as London? Are they there … Continue reading
We are well into the 4th Industrial Revolution and on the cusp of the 5th
Last week I spent a fascinating day learning about Imperial College’s ATLAS project. ATLAS is an inter-departmental collaboration between the Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry departments , with facilities which brings together three automated synthesis platforms and a series … Continue reading
Genius Loci and Path Dependent Economic Development
I’ve just finished reading The English Terraced House by Stefen Muthesius (Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1982) and he tells us that originally the English Terraced House was an urban invention, for the wealthy, which were set out … Continue reading
Places Will Self-Regenerate – So Don’t Bother Intervening (Said Regeneration Manager)
I remember a conversation I had some years ago with a very senior manager of the Government’s then ‘Regeneration Agency’. “Regeneration is pointless” he said. “Just wait for change – eventually prices we become so cheap that someone will invest … Continue reading
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Moving From Grants to Direct Investment, Action and Control
There is too much thinking and action which goes along the lines of “Let’s have a grant scheme to encourage businesses to do and invest in new stuff”. In my view we need more thinking and action from our Government … Continue reading
Story-boarding Urban Regeneration (and other) Projects.
For many years now I have thought that we should use a technique from the film-making industry when thinking about and developing Urban Regeneration projects and programme – that is the technique of Story-boarding. So, I was interested to read … Continue reading
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