Design for life
Think tank: Localis
Author(s): Sandy Forsyth
May 8, 2024
This report from UK think tank Localis presents an analysis of local regeneration policy through the lens of five overarching strategic concerns.
The next political cycle is likely to be characterised by the vexing problem of improving the public realm in a situation of parlous public finances.
Recent crises have left the state with very little fiscal headroom, yet the political and economic imperative for regenerating our cities and towns has never been clearer.
Design for Life presents an analysis of local regeneration policy through the lens of five overarching strategic concerns, amounting to a best practice framework from which recommendations to local and central government can be drawn.
The overarching question is, as we enter the end of one political cycle and await the start of a new one, what lessons, both broad and particular, should our placemakers be drawing from and putting into good practice from now until the end of the decade?
