Developing a sub-regional growth strategy: Reflections on recent English experience
Developing a sub-regional growth strategy: Reflections on recent English experience
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10.1177/0269094213500627
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Field, Martin
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作者：
Cochrane, Allan;Colenutt, Bob;Field, Martin
这篇文章批判性地回顾了在可持续社区计划的支持下，寻求将住房和经济发展结合在一起的一项重大次区域战略的经验。它借鉴了目前ESRC资助的一个项目的证据，该项目重点关注米尔顿·凯恩斯和北安普敦郡、米尔顿·凯恩斯生长区的北部和可持续社区计划中确定的南米德兰兹郡。可持续社区计划承诺在英格兰东南部关键地点的一系列“增长区”采取全面的区域发展方法，主要基于建立“可持续社区”，其中将包括对就业、城镇中心、学校、交通、住房和社区设施的投资。然而，住房、经济交付和可持续发展方面令人期待的“阶段性变化”在很大程度上依赖于私营部门(特别是房屋建筑业)开展广泛活动的预期。这在多大程度上是一种现实的预期在文章中受到了质疑，文章还强调了治理问题。在经济衰退之后，优先事项从质量问题转向数量目标，这有助于破坏可满足性议程。虽然可持续社区计划本身可能基于对私营房屋建筑部门将提供什么的不可持续的假设而不够充分，但它仍试图纳入可供讨论的次区域的更广泛的战略远景。在本届政府的地方主义议程中，这种可能性似乎是不存在的。
This article critically reviews the experience of a major sub-regional strategy which sought to bring housing and economic development together, under the aegis of the Sustainable Communities Plan. It draws on evidence from a current ESRC-funded project focused on Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire, the northern part of the growth area of Milton Keynes and the South Midlands identified in the Sustainable Communities Plan. The Sustainable Communities Plan promised a comprehensive approach to regional development in a series of 'growth areas' in key locations around the South East of England, based primarily upon building 'sustainable communities' which would include investment in jobs, town centres, schools, transport, housing and community facilities. However, a much-desired 'step change' in housing, economic delivery and sustainable development relied heavily on the expectation of extensive activity by the private sector (particularly by the house-building industry). The extent to which this was a realistic expectation is questioned in the article, which also highlights issues of governance. The shift in priorities towards quantity targets away from issues of quality in the wake of recession helped to undermine the satiability agenda. While the Sustainable Communities Plan may itself have been inadequate, based on unsustainable assumptions about what the private house-building sector would deliver, it nevertheless sought to incorporate a wider strategic vision for the subregion around which argument was possible. Such possibilities seem absent within the current government's localist agenda.