Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference. Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings. The abstract is below: Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
I’ve just had this article published in the Journal of Town and City Management. The abstract is below. If you’d like to know more about this paper and don’t have access to read it online, please get in touch. “British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse… [Read more…]
February 1, 2011
Samantha Chaperon and I have had a paper accepted for a Regional Studies Association event on ‘Innovation Processes and Destination Development in Tourist Resorts’ that will be held in Östersund, Sweden from 30th March-1st April this year. Our paper is titled ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships and Seaside Towns: an analysis of a framework for the governance… [Read more…]
December 8, 2010
This is a copy of a presentation that myself and a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, were due to give at the ATHE 2010 conference last week. Sadly the weather conspired against us, but the organisers have been kind enough to let us submit the full paper for the proceedings, which I will post a link to… [Read more…]
November 9, 2010
I was very pleased to be invited last week to speak to a group of Japanese scholars from Oita University who were on a visit to Kent to investigate cultural regeneration led by Teresa Smith from the University of Oxford. I spoke about my research into the social impacts of cultural regeneration and we had a… [Read more…]
September 12, 2010
This is the presentation that I gave at the ‘Cultural Journeys’ conference at University Centre Folkestone on 9th September. It is mainly images, but if you download it you can read my notes in the PowerPoint file that include references to some useful sources about cultural regeneration.
September 1, 2010
An interview with Meanwhile Space’s Eddie Bridgman, about the Seasider project. Eddie gives a useful summary of some of the issues affecting seaside towns and mentions some of the regeneration projects that are being carried out on the coast. The interview takes place in the fantastic Seasider pop-up shop in Camden. Via the Regeneration and… [Read more…]
March 8, 2010
I have started a new blog and a new twitter account to record the progress of my PhD research into the cultural regeneration of seaside towns in the UK. I’ll be posting fairly regular updates on my research, which is now into its last 12 months, and also using them as a forum for discussion… [Read more…]
February 8, 2010
I’m going to be appearing on the BBC1 TV programme ‘The Politics Show South East’ on Sunday 14th February. I’ve been invited on to discuss the role of regeneration spending in seaside towns, for an article that has been prompted by the publication of the Centre For Cities ‘Cities Outlook 2010′ report. The Centre for Cities are a… [Read more…]
January 12, 2010
There are three new posts up on our ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ blog. The first is on our use of a yahoo pipe to collect images of the seaside promenade, the second is a set of links to other projects who also use Benjamin’s ‘Aracdes Project’ as inspiration for new work, and… [Read more…]
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