Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: By getting out of the way and letting councils and communities run their own affairs we can restore civic pride, democratic accountability and economic growth -and build a stronger, fairer Britain.It's the end of the era of big government: laying the foundations for the Big Society (Pickles, quoted in Inside Government 2010: np)[A]ll contemporary expressions of territory… are, to varying degrees, punctuated by and orchestrated through a myriad of trans-territorial networks and relational webs of connectivity (MacLeod and Jones 2007: 1186)
Authors: Cook, Ian, Ward, Kevin
Institution: University of Manchester
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1545855553