This section sets out the key areas where we want to deepen our understanding to drive the levelling up agenda, and to unleash opportunity, prosperity and pride in place across the UK. In addition, we want to understand in more granular detail which interventions best drive local growth (local growth is an area of joint responsibility between BEIS and DLUHC).
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Across Western Europe the activity of urban regeneration is now around 40 years old. From the vantage point of the present this history is best understood as one of experimentation and re-experimentation with a range of ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool
The project partially answers the question by providing examples of urban regeneration interventions in Western Europe, but does not address the roles of the public and private sectors or the type of investment required.
Smart Shrinkage Solutions - Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe is a project that offers the best practice and most feasible solutions to the problem of urban shrinkage - a continuous population dec...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project partially answers the question by offering best practices and feasible solutions for urban shrinkage in Europe, but does not specifically address the roles of the public and private sectors or the type of investment required.
This unparalleled opportunity for secondment situates an academic within the UK's foremost urban regeneration property company, to research new approaches to large scale urban regeneration projects. The 3 year secondment...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Manchester Metropolitan University
The project partially answers the question by exploring cultural masterplanning principles and methods for urban regeneration, but does not specifically address international examples or the roles of the public and private sectors.