Paul Lawless
Biographic Data
| ID | 5811422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lawless |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawless |
| SIGNATURE | LAWLESS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exploring Change in Local Regeneration Areas
For many years, United Kingdom governments have instigated urban regeneration schemes. The 1998–2011 New Deal for Communities Programme was designed to change 39 deprived English areas, with regard to place-based, and people-based outcomes. Change data for all NDC areas from a common base-line can be used to establish relative rates of change across these neighbourhoods. Three sets of factors might help to explain why some areas saw more change t…
Can area-based regeneration programmes ever work? Evidence from England's New Deal for Communities Programme
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme is one of the most intensive area-based initiatives (ABIs) ever launched in England. Between 1998 and 2011, 39 Partnerships were charged with improving conditions in relation to six outcomes within deprived neighbourhoods, each accommodating around 9800 people. The evaluation of the Programme points to only modest net change for NDC areas and their residents, much of which reflects improving attitudes …
Population Mobility in Regeneration Areas
The nature, extent, and impact of residential mobility have attracted considerable interest. Little of this work has explored relationships between mobility and outcomes for area-based regeneration schemes. England's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme marks a departure from previous regeneration programmes in terms of levels of funding and time span. Evidence suggests that between 2002 and 2006 the thirty-nine NDC areas were subject to comp…
Olympic Cities
John R. Gold & Margaret M. Gold (Eds), Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 444 pp., £95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780415486576 Bearing in mind the imminence of the London 2012 Olympics, and the increasing ‘festivalis
Is Urban Area-based Regeneration Possible? The New Deal for Communities Programme in England
Understanding Area-based Regeneration
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme is an ambitious English area-based initiative which aims, over 10 years, to transform 39 deprived neighbourhoods in relation to six outcomes: crime, education, health, worklessness, housing and the community. Data indicate modest programme-wide change against benchmarks. Evidence is used to examine the validity of the programme’s four design parameters: a 10-year horizon is necessary to achieve change;…
Area-based regeneration partnerships and the role of central government
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) is an ambitious English area-based initiative (ABI) designed to transform 39 deprived areas in relation to five outcomes: crime, education, health, worklessness, and housing and the physical environment. Change data are now available for 2002–08. NDC areas continue to see positive change, but show only modest improvements against other benchmarks, notably similarly deprived comparator areas. Regeneration has bee…
Area-based Urban Interventions
It is now 40 years since the first area-based initiative (ABI) was launched in England. New Deal for Communities (NDC), announced in 1998, is one of the most ambitious of English ABIs in that it aims, over a period of 10 years, to reduce the gaps between 39 deprived areas and national standards in five outcome areas: crime, education, health, worklessness, and housing and the physical environment. Change data from the 2001-05 national evaluation …
Power and Conflict in Pro-growth Regimes
Jersey City and Detroit provide contrasting experience of the policy and politics in two US cities. Both can be seen as idealised 'pro-growth' regimes. Jersey City has benefited from the relocation of commercial and residential development out of Manhattan. The city has actively pursued new investment and has instigated various policies designed to spread the benefits of development across different sectoral and spatial communities. Detroit has e…
Urban Regeneration and Transport Investment
There has been little work exploring the impact of transport investment on economic regeneration at the urban scale. This lack of attention is in part related to theoretical inadequacies and methodological difficulties, not least the separating out and attribution of effects. Such issues were addressed by a major empirical study conducted in Sheffield during the early 1990s. This paper outlines the research methods adopted, which involved breakin…
Urban Governance and Industrial Decline
There has been a marked increase in comparative research examining the dynamics of regime formation in the United Kingdom and the United States. These authors consider regime formation processes in three deindustrializing cities: Detroit, Michigan, and Birmingham and Sheffield, England. The article identifies two cross-cutting themes: the effects of national/international political and economic forces on local governance and the role of public an…
Community Based Initiative and State Urban Policy
LAWLESS P., ELSE P., FARNELL R., FURBEY R., LUND S. and WISHART B. (1998) Community based initiative and state urban policy: the Church Urban Fund, Reg. Studies 32 , 161-174. For much of the post 1979 period, community based development initiatives have played only a limited role in urban economic and social regeneration. A number of more informal community based initiatives have however been implemented. Of these the Church of England's Church U…
Geographical Variation in the Labour-Market Adjustment Process
During the 1980s and early 1990s the UK coal industry shed more than 90% of its workforce. In this paper we explore the consequences for different coalfields and individual districts by means of comprehensive ‘labour-market accounts’. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployment shows remarkably little variation, but this disguises considerably greater diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become …
Glasgow
Inner-city and Suburban Labour Markets in a Major English Conurbation
Unemployment is one of the key characteristics of Britain's inner cities. This paper examines labour market processes and their policy implications within an inner-city and a suburban area of an economically depressed city in England, Sheffield. Five major themes are examined: markedly contrasting unemployment rates within the two areas and their policy implications; job barriers, aspirations and opportunities; skills attainment and training issu…
Spatial differentiation in urban employment patterns
1995). Spatial differentiation in urban employment patterns: Inner city and suburban labour markets in an English provincial city. Local Government Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 224-247
Urban Regeneration and Transport Investment
Transport infrastructure has played only a limited role in the evolution of urban policy in the United Kingdom. The scale of investment in a range of infrastructural projects in Sheffield allows for a detailed examination of the interrelationships between regeneration and transport expenditure. This research programme is, in particular, intended to identify within one urban conurbation the effects of infrastructure on planning and property, busin…
Urban transport investment and regeneration
(1994). Urban transport investment and regeneration: Researching the impact of south Yorkshire supertram. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 407-414
Interwoven destinies
Partnership in Urban Regeneration in the UK
During the later 1980s, support for public-private sector partnerships came to the fore in British urban policy. This paper explores one particular manifestation of partnership in an English provincial city, the Sheffield Central Area Study, within the context of growth coalition and regime theories. Analysis of agendas adopted by partners and questions of power, suggests that existing theories do not satisfactorily account for experience within …
An evaluation of the rural development commission's redundant building grant
Urban regeneration and planning
Managed workspaces
Sheffield in the 1980s
Privatism and urban policy in Britain and The United States
Urban Governance and Industrial Decline
There has been a marked increase in comparative research examining the dynamics of regime formation in the United Kingdom and the United States. These authors consider regime formation processes in three deindustrializing cities: Detroit, Michigan, and Birmingham and Sheffield, England. The article identifies two cross-cutting themes: the effects of national/international political and economic forces on local governance and the role of public an…
Area-based Urban Interventions
It is now 40 years since the first area-based initiative (ABI) was launched in England. New Deal for Communities (NDC), announced in 1998, is one of the most ambitious of English ABIs in that it aims, over a period of 10 years, to reduce the gaps between 39 deprived areas and national standards in five outcome areas: crime, education, health, worklessness, and housing and the physical environment. Change data from the 2001-05 national evaluation …
Area-based regeneration partnerships and the role of central government
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) is an ambitious English area-based initiative (ABI) designed to transform 39 deprived areas in relation to five outcomes: crime, education, health, worklessness, and housing and the physical environment. Change data are now available for 2002–08. NDC areas continue to see positive change, but show only modest improvements against other benchmarks, notably similarly deprived comparator areas. Regeneration has bee…
Understanding Area-based Regeneration
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme is an ambitious English area-based initiative which aims, over 10 years, to transform 39 deprived neighbourhoods in relation to six outcomes: crime, education, health, worklessness, housing and the community. Data indicate modest programme-wide change against benchmarks. Evidence is used to examine the validity of the programme’s four design parameters: a 10-year horizon is necessary to achieve change;…
Sheffield in the 1980s
Partnership in Urban Regeneration in the UK
During the later 1980s, support for public-private sector partnerships came to the fore in British urban policy. This paper explores one particular manifestation of partnership in an English provincial city, the Sheffield Central Area Study, within the context of growth coalition and regime theories. Analysis of agendas adopted by partners and questions of power, suggests that existing theories do not satisfactorily account for experience within …
New approaches to local authority economic intervention
Geographical Variation in the Labour-Market Adjustment Process
During the 1980s and early 1990s the UK coal industry shed more than 90% of its workforce. In this paper we explore the consequences for different coalfields and individual districts by means of comprehensive ‘labour-market accounts’. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployment shows remarkably little variation, but this disguises considerably greater diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become …
Community Based Initiative and State Urban Policy
LAWLESS P., ELSE P., FARNELL R., FURBEY R., LUND S. and WISHART B. (1998) Community based initiative and state urban policy: the Church Urban Fund, Reg. Studies 32 , 161-174. For much of the post 1979 period, community based development initiatives have played only a limited role in urban economic and social regeneration. A number of more informal community based initiatives have however been implemented. Of these the Church of England's Church U…
Urban development corporations and their alternatives
British Inner Urban Policy Post 1979
Urban experimentation in the 1960s gave way to more permanent urban policy heralded by The 1917 White Paper. Evaluation of inner city initiatives implemented by the Department of Employment and Department of the Environment post 1979 can be undertaken at three levels. First, ideological considerations notably concerning the role of the market and public sector intervention have impacted on urban policy with unforeseen and limiting results. Second…
Exploring Change in Local Regeneration Areas
For many years, United Kingdom governments have instigated urban regeneration schemes. The 1998–2011 New Deal for Communities Programme was designed to change 39 deprived English areas, with regard to place-based, and people-based outcomes. Change data for all NDC areas from a common base-line can be used to establish relative rates of change across these neighbourhoods. Three sets of factors might help to explain why some areas saw more change t…
Urban Regeneration and Transport Investment
There has been little work exploring the impact of transport investment on economic regeneration at the urban scale. This lack of attention is in part related to theoretical inadequacies and methodological difficulties, not least the separating out and attribution of effects. Such issues were addressed by a major empirical study conducted in Sheffield during the early 1990s. This paper outlines the research methods adopted, which involved breakin…
Can area-based regeneration programmes ever work? Evidence from England's New Deal for Communities Programme
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme is one of the most intensive area-based initiatives (ABIs) ever launched in England. Between 1998 and 2011, 39 Partnerships were charged with improving conditions in relation to six outcomes within deprived neighbourhoods, each accommodating around 9800 people. The evaluation of the Programme points to only modest net change for NDC areas and their residents, much of which reflects improving attitudes …
The role of some central government agencies in urban economic regeneration
Lawless P. (1981) The role of some central government agencies in urban economic regeneration, Reg. Studies 15, 1–14. This paper attempts to define the extent to which three central government agencies, the Department of Industry, the National Enterprise Board, and the Manpower Services Commission, expressed, explicitly or otherwise, an urban dimension in the 1977–1979 period. This paper concludes that, although spatial objectives remain largely …
Population Mobility in Regeneration Areas
The nature, extent, and impact of residential mobility have attracted considerable interest. Little of this work has explored relationships between mobility and outcomes for area-based regeneration schemes. England's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme marks a departure from previous regeneration programmes in terms of levels of funding and time span. Evidence suggests that between 2002 and 2006 the thirty-nine NDC areas were subject to comp…
Inner-city and Suburban Labour Markets in a Major English Conurbation
Unemployment is one of the key characteristics of Britain's inner cities. This paper examines labour market processes and their policy implications within an inner-city and a suburban area of an economically depressed city in England, Sheffield. Five major themes are examined: markedly contrasting unemployment rates within the two areas and their policy implications; job barriers, aspirations and opportunities; skills attainment and training issu…
Managed workspaces
Land use planning and the inner cities — The case of the lower don valley, Sheffield∗
1990). Land use planning and the inner cities — The case of the lower don valley, Sheffield. Local Government Studies: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 33-47
Partnerships — A critical evaluation
New approaches to local authority economic intervention
Partnerships — A critical evaluation
The role of some central government agencies in urban economic regeneration
Lawless P. (1981) The role of some central government agencies in urban economic regeneration, Reg. Studies 15, 1–14. This paper attempts to define the extent to which three central government agencies, the Department of Industry, the National Enterprise Board, and the Manpower Services Commission, expressed, explicitly or otherwise, an urban dimension in the 1977–1979 period. This paper concludes that, although spatial objectives remain largely …
Urban economic change
Urban development corporations and their alternatives
Economic development policies
British Inner Urban Policy Post 1979
Urban experimentation in the 1960s gave way to more permanent urban policy heralded by The 1917 White Paper. Evaluation of inner city initiatives implemented by the Department of Employment and Department of the Environment post 1979 can be undertaken at three levels. First, ideological considerations notably concerning the role of the market and public sector intervention have impacted on urban policy with unforeseen and limiting results. Second…
The uncertain future of the urban core
Sheffield in the 1980s
Privatism and urban policy in Britain and The United States
Land use planning and the inner cities — The case of the lower don valley, Sheffield∗
1990). Land use planning and the inner cities — The case of the lower don valley, Sheffield. Local Government Studies: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 33-47
Britain's Inner Cities
Urban regeneration and planning
Managed workspaces
An evaluation of the rural development commission's redundant building grant
Urban transport investment and regeneration
(1994). Urban transport investment and regeneration: Researching the impact of south Yorkshire supertram. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 407-414
Interwoven destinies
Partnership in Urban Regeneration in the UK
During the later 1980s, support for public-private sector partnerships came to the fore in British urban policy. This paper explores one particular manifestation of partnership in an English provincial city, the Sheffield Central Area Study, within the context of growth coalition and regime theories. Analysis of agendas adopted by partners and questions of power, suggests that existing theories do not satisfactorily account for experience within …
Inner-city and Suburban Labour Markets in a Major English Conurbation
Unemployment is one of the key characteristics of Britain's inner cities. This paper examines labour market processes and their policy implications within an inner-city and a suburban area of an economically depressed city in England, Sheffield. Five major themes are examined: markedly contrasting unemployment rates within the two areas and their policy implications; job barriers, aspirations and opportunities; skills attainment and training issu…
Spatial differentiation in urban employment patterns
1995). Spatial differentiation in urban employment patterns: Inner city and suburban labour markets in an English provincial city. Local Government Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 224-247
Urban Regeneration and Transport Investment
Transport infrastructure has played only a limited role in the evolution of urban policy in the United Kingdom. The scale of investment in a range of infrastructural projects in Sheffield allows for a detailed examination of the interrelationships between regeneration and transport expenditure. This research programme is, in particular, intended to identify within one urban conurbation the effects of infrastructure on planning and property, busin…
Glasgow
Geographical Variation in the Labour-Market Adjustment Process
During the 1980s and early 1990s the UK coal industry shed more than 90% of its workforce. In this paper we explore the consequences for different coalfields and individual districts by means of comprehensive ‘labour-market accounts’. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployment shows remarkably little variation, but this disguises considerably greater diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become …
Community Based Initiative and State Urban Policy
LAWLESS P., ELSE P., FARNELL R., FURBEY R., LUND S. and WISHART B. (1998) Community based initiative and state urban policy: the Church Urban Fund, Reg. Studies 32 , 161-174. For much of the post 1979 period, community based development initiatives have played only a limited role in urban economic and social regeneration. A number of more informal community based initiatives have however been implemented. Of these the Church of England's Church U…
Urban Regeneration and Transport Investment
There has been little work exploring the impact of transport investment on economic regeneration at the urban scale. This lack of attention is in part related to theoretical inadequacies and methodological difficulties, not least the separating out and attribution of effects. Such issues were addressed by a major empirical study conducted in Sheffield during the early 1990s. This paper outlines the research methods adopted, which involved breakin…
Political science (22 works) · Geography (20 works) · Economics (19 works) · Economic growth (17 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works)