Comments on: place-making and localism http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/place-making-and-localism.htm people, place & planning Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nick http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/place-making-and-localism.htm/comment-page-1#comment-851 Nick Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:44:45 +0000 http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/place-making-and-localism.htm#comment-851 The <a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/" rel="nofollow">new economics foundation</a> (<strong>nef</strong>) has published 20 policy priorities for rebuilding our economy <a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?PID=268" rel="nofollow">From the Ashes of the Crash</a>. Required reading for anyone interested in the localism agenda - <strong>nef</strong> aim to support the 'sleeping architecture'; of a new more community-based and sustainable economy, an architecture which they rightly say already exists. The pamphlet looks at what's needed to support the localism agenda from an economic, as opposed to place, perspective. The steps encompass both government policy and individual action, strategic interventions in the banking and taxation systems to support for community finance institutions, time banking, the Post Bank and local bonds. Well worth reading. The new economics foundation (nef) has published 20 policy priorities for rebuilding our economy From the Ashes of the Crash.

Required reading for anyone interested in the localism agenda – nef aim to support the ‘sleeping architecture’; of a new more community-based and sustainable economy, an architecture which they rightly say already exists. The pamphlet looks at what’s needed to support the localism agenda from an economic, as opposed to place, perspective.

The steps encompass both government policy and individual action, strategic interventions in the banking and taxation systems to support for community finance institutions, time banking, the Post Bank and local bonds. Well worth reading.

]]> By: Nick http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/place-making-and-localism.htm/comment-page-1#comment-633 Nick Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:07:02 +0000 http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/place-making-and-localism.htm#comment-633 if you read <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jan/28/comment.comment" rel="nofollow">this Guardian article</a> promoting sprawl by Robert Bruegmann, an American academic, localism might also provide the key to the lower density urban living that many people aspire to (in the UK at least) if you read this Guardian article promoting sprawl by Robert Bruegmann, an American academic, localism might also provide the key to the lower density urban living that many people aspire to (in the UK at least)

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