A 10-year agenda for Cities and Public Policy

Dr. Nicola Headlam 11/07/16

A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL AGENDA // CITIES AND

PUBLIC POLICY // BRISTOL

Dr. Nicola Headlam 11/07/16

A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL AGENDA // CITIES AND

PUBLIC POLICY // BRISTOL

Dr. Nicola Headlam 11/07/16

A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL AGENDA // CITIES AND

PUBLIC POLICY // BRISTOL

3. KE/Policy // Future City // Urban Transformations // researcher life course 4. Bristol // Place-based Statecraft in

the Living Laboratory

1. Research // Urban policy // Urban Lens

2. Teaching // public policy // new Future City MSc

DECADES

Foundations “Early career” Next phase

1965 2065

2015

2015 2065 2040 2033

2019/20

50 yrs

25 yrs

Near future Mid future ‘Far shores’

FORESIGHT/BACKCAST

1965 2065

2015

2015 2065 2040 2033

2019/20

50 yrs

25 yrs

Near future Mid future ‘Far shores’

FORESIGHT/BACKCAST

SECTION 1// RESEARCH

Urban Policy Economic Development, Regeneration and Neighbourhood Renewal

� Why is this so hard?* � Subnational economic

development and Urban Policy frameworks

� Spatial consequences of public policy

Governance, Management and Leadership of Place

� Mayoral models of leadership � Collective and distributed

network approaches

Urban Lens Methods

� How to know the city as interdisciplinary object

� comparative urbanism � Urban foresight – futures and

the UK System of Cities

Place Based Statecraft in the Living Laboratory

� Roles and Platforms � Pencils not pens � Unspooled UK � Knowing and knitting � Graft and grow not cut and

paste

CORE PREOCCUPATIONS

Spatial political economy Fundamental questions

of constitutional structures, central-local relations, institutional co-ordination, and public expenditure… are addressed as the perhaps unglamorous dimensions of sub-national government and governance.

(Pike and Tomaney 2004)

WHO/WHOM? & WHERE..

URBAN POLICY

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, REGENERATION AND NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL

SUBNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN POLICY FRAMEWORKS

SPATIAL CONSEQUENCES OF PUBLIC POLICY

Regeneration Austerity

Community Development

Governance Leadership

Central– local Pragmatic localism permissiveness

Boosterism /brokerage Foresight future of public policy

THE URBAN LENS

HOW TO KNOW THE CIT Y

AS INTERDISCIPLINARY OBJECT COMPARATIVE URBANISM

URBAN FORESIGHT FUTURES AND THE UK SYSTEM OF CITIES

“Economic facts are soc ial facts are psychic facts are aesthet ic facts”

The metropol is & mental l i fe…

GEORG SIMMEL

COLLECTIVE LEARNING

The meeting of knowledge and the city is a fertile ground …the planetary knowledge societies of the 21st century will have the possibility for the first time in human history to consciously and systematically develop coexistent rules and systems based primarily on represented realities or knowledge capitals… This may mean an evolutionary leapfrog will be required to overcome the huge environmental, energy, resources, demographic, financial, sociopolitical,cultural crises that we are just beginning to unleash. Cari l lo et al . (2014) pg 271 Knowledge Markets and Urban Transformation chapter 8 of Knowledge and the City : Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge -Based Urban Development : Routledge

� New urban agenda UN � Habitat 3 SDG11 and Quito

� European � OI2 for DG regio � #Euurbanagenda � #brexit consequences (erdf!)

� Countries of UK. � City deal fix sticking better outside England – why?

� England � Northern powerhouse/midlands growth engine � City deals – mayoralties – combined authorities

� “localism” and Local Authorities � austerity, shared services and reconfigurations � Place-based budgetting

� Neighbourhood planning / cluster dynamics

SUBNATIONAL POLICY SCALES

Each node may connect in non -h ierarchical ways

HIERARCHY OF SCALES

URBAN HIERARCHY

� Spiky/flat � Uneven spatial development � Agglomeration � World city discourse – london independence � Boosterist logics and urban competitiveness � Unwinding of local government financial settlements � Threat to UK system of cities

STABILITY & ORDER

UNSPOOLED “UNITED” KINDGOM

NETWORK COMPETENCE

SECTION 2// TEACHING

2011-2016 � University of Oxford F u t u r e o f C i t i e s : B e s t s u s t a i n a b l e P r a c t i c e G u e s t l e c t u r e r , S u m m e r 2 0 1 5 , 2 0 1 6

� University of Liverpool, M a n a g e m e n t S c h o o l S u b j e c t M a t t e r E x p e r t ( S M E) L i v e r po o l O n l i n e M P A , J u n e 2 0 1 4 w i t h L a r e a t e O n l i n e E d u c a t i o n . R e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r m o d u l e s ‘ p u b l i c p o l i c y i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ’ a n d ‘ w o r k i n g a c r o s s b o u n d a r i e s ’ C i v i c D e s i g n : G u e s t l e c t u r e r , n e i g h b o u r h o o d p l a n n i n g G u e s t l e c t u r e r , d a t a a n a l y s i s , r e s e a r c h m e t h o d s

� Wolfson College, University

of Cambridge I n t e r n a t i o n a l D i p l o m a f o r t h e B u i l t E n v i r o n m e n t ( I D B E ) , S u m m e r S c h o o l , 2 0 1 3 , 1 4 , 1 5 C r o s s d i s c i p l i n a r y s t u d i o a n d w o r k s h o p c o n v e n e r , L e c t u r e r

TEACHING/CPD

2006-2011

� University of Manchester P l a n n i n g S c h o o l P L A N 3 0 0 8 2 / P L A N 6 0 0 4 2 : P l a n n i n g T h e o r y & V a l u e s ( U G ) c o u r s e c o n v e n e r 2 0 0 9 -2 0 1 2 a n d P l a n n i n g T h e o r y & E t h i c s ( P G ) c o n t r i bu t o r w i t h P r o f G r a h a m H a u g h t o n 2 0 1 0 P L A N 3 0 7 6 2 : C o m m u n i t y P l a n n i n g ( U G ) c o n t r i bu t o r w i t h D r J o a n n e T i p p e t t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 L e c t u r e ‘ C o m m u n i t y P l a n n i n g P h i l o s o p h y t o P o l i c y ’ P L A N 1 0 0 4 1 : C i t i e s a n d S o c i e t y ( U G ) c o n t r i bu t o r w i t h D r . Y a s m i n a h B e e b e e j a u n P L A N 6 0 7 1 : U r b a n R e g e n e r a t i o n ( P G ) ( c o n t r i b u t o r ) w i t h I a i n D e a s 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 1 1 E u r o p e a n P l a n n i n g P e r s p e c t i v e F i e l d c o u r s e a s s i s t a n t 2 0 0 7 , 0 8 , 0 9 , 1 0 M a n c h e s t e r L e a d e r s h i p P r o g r a m m e e - t u to r

Discipline Number of courses Architecture 12 Geography 13

Management 6 Sociology 2

Design 12 Urban Studies 6

Regional Studies 7 Others /

Multi disiplinary 13

73 courses

Table 1 Urban Studies courses in British Universities in March 2015 by parent discipline

TEACHING : STUDENT EXPERIENCE

� Masterclasses - bringing in people from practice networks and visiting scholars. � Local knowledge and networks key (!) � Urbanistas – London and Liverpool � IDBE Wolfson Cambridge

� Case studies for Student led seminars/dicussions � Eg from MAURD manchester and HMR

� Getting out (!) fieldwork etc. / Enquiry -based learning � Eg neighbourhood planning liverpool civic design, european planning

perspectives Manchester

� Open events � networks and assets fresh thinking session Liverpool

BEYOND CLASSROOM 1 :REAL WORLD

� Example

DOSSIER

BEYOND CLASSROOM 2 : ONLINE

SECTION 3// KE

National Foresight

Foresight City Network City Pilots City Vision

Community

Newcastle: Report

Complete

Cardiff: Just Starting

Manchester: Report

Complete

Liverpool: Complete

London: UCL city

leadership

Devolution Agenda/Societal Challenges

Foresight Working Papers

•Rochdale •Bristol •Milton Keynes

•Belfast •Birmingham •Cambridge •Derby •Derry/ Londonderry •Edinburgh •Glasgow •Lancaster •Leeds

•Leicester •London •Nottingham •Oxford •Reading •Sheffield

Other future city/region initiatives • Northern Powerhouse • Catapult – Future Cities • ESRC Urban Transformations • Etc……….

URBAN THINK TANKS ETC.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH/POLICY ENTITIES

Universities have always been full of people who want to change the world. Their new enthusiasm for a growing civic role for their institution reflects the growing expectation that they will do this in a more active and less accidental way in future. Reward mechanisms in academic life will increasingly need to reflect these changed priorities. Academics have traditionally been seen as excellent on the basis of their research. But in recent years both teaching and external impact have been added to the mix. The university of the future will need to regard its local setting as inherent to its operations, with f inancial, business and cultural exchanges, a range of joint and part -time working arrangements, and a f low of formal and informal contacts. Cities and universities will need to set priorities jointly…and work together to achieve them… in the knowledge that this new activity benefits both sides and is recognised as a core activity for cities and universities alike (Tewdr-Jones & Godard, 2016:5 )

CIVIC UNIVERSITY

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

ACTIVITIES

Bristol Festival of Ideas, Foresight author’s workshop Nov 2015

An Urban Observatory for Cardiff: Urban systems and public service delivery in austerity Britain April 2016

City Futures Symposium, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 23-24 June 2016

Brain/Power/House Manchester Sept 2016

From cities policy to city policy, Glasgow June 2016

Foresight / UT co-production round table Sept 2015

IMPACT CASE STUDIES - ANALYSIS

ESRC EPSRC AHRC NERC MRC STFC BBSRC

@NETWORKNICOLA

SECTION 4// PLACE-BASED STATECRAFT IN

THE BRISTOL LIVING LABORATORY

UNIVERSITY STRATEGY

Mike yearwood

Helen manchester

Antonia layard

Judith squires

Igor calzada

EP/P002137/1 The Bristol Urban Area Diagnostics Pilot

Colin taylor

Sean fox

David sweeting

Sarah ayres

Alex marsh

Knowledge Mobilisation for Urban Transformation

�Pencils not pens – adaptive co-production �Unspooled UK after post-political �Knowing and knitting the network �Graft and grow not cut and paste for models

(eigenlogik) �Roles and Platforms �Circuits of credibility

PLACE BASED STATECRAFT IN THE LIVING LABORATORY

ONGOING…

1. Knowledge mobilisation for urban transformation in the uneven UK (manuscript)

2. Economic Development in the Subnational UK - democratising devolution (manuscript)

3. Research ecosystem, innovation and urban living (MK)

4. ‘Future city, future university’ (co -author edited book project) : Manchester University Press UT series (MTJ)

5. ‘Academic Archers’: Peter Lang Press submitted co-author edited book (CC&PM)

6. ‘How (not to) run a city’ single author monograph : MUP

• Teach • Build local

networks • Prepare bids • Develop new

courses • Write

DECADES III

A YEAR’S EFFORT

125 days

80 days

80 days Core

research

80 days

{

Travel Rest Friends Family

Teaching/instructing

Admin/Projects

QUESTIONS

� Deas, I and Headlam, N (2015) Boosterism, brokerage and uneasy bedfellows: Networked urban governance and the emergence of post-polit ical or thodoxy Chapter 9 for Paddison, R. and Hutton, T. Cities and Economic Change, London: Sage.

� Headlam, N and Rowe, M (2014b) ‘The End of the Affair: Abusive Partnerships in Austerity’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal 17:2 for special edition edited by Lee Pugalis, Joyce Liddle and John Diamond on Regeneration and Austerity.

� Deas, I , Hincks, S & Headlam, N (2013a) Explicitly permissive? Understanding actor interrelationships in the governance of economic development: the experience of England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships: Local Economy, 28 (7:2)

� Headlam, N & Hincks, S (2011) ‘Reflecting on the Role of Social Innovation in Urban Policy’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 4 (2), 168-179.

� Coaffee,J . and Headlam, N. (2008) Pragmatic localism uncovered: The search for locally contingent solutions to national reform agendas Geoforum, 39 (4) 1585

BIBLIOGRAPHY

� Headlam, N and Harding, A (2016, in press)’Manchester men in the recession’ chapter of Unequal cities in Europe: the challenge of post- industrial transition in times of austerity eds Constanzo Ranci and Roberta Cucca : Routledge

� Headlam, N (2014a) Liverchester, Manpool, the curious case of the lack of intermunicipal co-operation in the cities of the north -west of England book chapter for eds Liddle, J and Diamond J, Public Management in Austerity: Emerald

� Headlam, N & Harding, A (2013b) ‘The Case of Greater Manchester ; Institutional and policy innovation amidst emerging austerity’ for Economic Development and Social Integration in Europe: Urban Policies in comparative perspective ed. Constanzo Ranci: Polimi Press

� CONTEXT 1: Gardesse , C & Headlam, N Governance of highly contested spaces : A UK -French comparison

� CONTEXT 2: Headlam, N Twin Engines for Growth and Economic Development , Manchester City Region and Manchester Airport

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