Author: Leigh Sparks
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May 2021 – Journal Articles page updated with two new academic papers in Planning, Theory and Practice, and Sustainability, joining our Ageing & Society paper
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- Grocery Market Shares in Great Britain 1997-2021
- Grocery Market Shares in the UK 2020
- Towns, High Streets and Resilience: A Question for Policy?
- Taxing Times: Tesco and Poland
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- Stopping Doing Harm to our Town Centres
- Scotland Loves Local: The Next Phase
- Locavore's Bigger Plan
- Towns and Town Centres in Scotland: reflections six years on from Fraser
- A New Future for Scotland's Towns - (3) Recommendations
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Tag Archives: Leadership
Build Back Better: Bill Grimsey and Covid
When Mary Portas produced her report for the UK Government on high streets, Bill Grimsey was quick to posit an alternative and to focus on leadership and technology for places. His report and its follow-up a few years later have … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Grimsey, CLES, Community, Consumers, Covid19, Government, High Streets, Leadership, Local Authorities, Mary Portas, Places, Proactive Planning, Public Policy, Regulation, Reinvention, Retail Change, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Scotland's Towns Partnership, Scottish Government, Social Justice, Town Centre Action Plan, Town Centre Review, Town Centres, Uncategorized
Tagged Build Back Better, CLES, Covid-19, Grimsey, High Streets, Leadership, Localism, Pandemic, Portas, Recovery, Scotland, Scotland's Towns Partnership, Social Renewal, Suatainability, Town Centre Action plan, Town Centres
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The Benefits of Collaboration
Last week I gave two presentations – well to be more exact I did that academic thing and did two versions of the same presentation. The first was a presentation to a UKCGE workshop on Collaborative Doctorates; the audience was … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Collaboration, Competition and Markets Authority, Consumer Change, Data, ESRC, Local Data Company, PhD, Places, Retailing, Uncategorized
Tagged CDRC, Collaboration, Data, ESRC, Leadership, Local Data Company, Retail Data
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World Towns Leadership Summit, 15-16 June 2016, Edinburgh
This is a reblog from Scotland’s Towns Partnership, about what I think should be an important and interesting event in Edinburgh in June: Join international town and urban leaders for a world first, taking place in Scotland in June … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Leadership, Places, Public Realm, Scotland's Towns Partnership, Social Inequality, Social Justice, Towns, Urban
Tagged ATCM, BIDs, Bids Scotland, Civic, Downtown, IDA, Leadership, Place-Making, Places, Scotland's Towns Partnership, towns, Urban
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