...Jim Hordern Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss different approaches to evaluation taken in the case of two regeneration programmes in England and Wales and identify how assumptions about the nature of policy and programme implementation affect evaluation and considerations of its use...

...Myfanwy Trueman; Nelarine Cornelius; Tom Franks; John Lawler; Myfanwy Trueman; Nelarine Cornelius; Tom Franks; John Lawler Purpose This article aims to introduce the special issue which arose from a conference about urban regeneration in post industrial cities hosted at Bradford University in 2008...

... the opportunity to explore some of the operational contradictions in public policy and how they are experienced in regeneration areas. Design/methodology/approach Local dynamics of employment and health are examined in neighbourhoods in two UK cities. The research draws on focus group data involving local...

... in practice. This paper aims to investigate community empowerment and influence over service providers brought about by the Communities First programme in Wales, a regeneration programme which aims to empower local communities. Design/methodology/approach The research analyses nine Communities First...

...Myfanwy Trueman; Nelarine Cornelius; Tom Franks; John Lawler; Chris Shiels; Deborah Baker; Stephen Barrow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent urban regeneration programmes were targeted at the most deprived geographical areas and populations within the boundaries...

...Myfanwy Trueman; Nelarine Cornelius; Tom Franks; John Lawler; Ryan Woolrych; Judith Sixsmith Purpose The concepts of well‐being and participation are prevalent in current regeneration policy, being seen as crucial to alleviating disadvantage and marginalisation in deprived communities. However...

...Graham Pearce; Alan Townsend Purpose This paper aims to study a major aspect of the recent Treasury‐led Review of Sub‐national Economic Development and Regeneration in attempting to integrate work currently performed under the separate economic and spatial strategies through...

...Jon Coaffee; Carole Johnson Purpose Aims to present a critical discussion of two UK case studies through which a “third way” modernisation of regeneration policies has been identified as a world‐wide trend. Design/methodology/approach Provides case studies that represent attempts at creating...

... centralising focus and constructing prescribed policy at national state level, and decentralising power and responsibility to a more inclusive group of stakeholders in order to develop increasingly nuanced and locally specific sets of regeneration priorities and outcomes. Originality/value The articles...

... and regeneration practices. Findings A few innovative chief executives are leading the way and showing what transforming leadership is about in practice. In spite of this the intransigent lack of diversity within decision‐making bodies produces a brake on positive social change. Originality/value Provides...

.... This has been taken up by community development specialists with particular reference to the position, at best ambiguous, of representatives or residents of local communities on the boards of regeneration partnerships. This paper aims to review this theory. Design/methodology/approach Reviews...

...Jon Coaffee The city of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, has become an urban laboratory where numerous nationally prescribed regeneration partnerships and strategies have been “tried‐out” over the last 30 years. This paper unpacks the different and often contradictory spatial scales that such responses...

...Peter Hamilton The article focuses on the regeneration section of the National Health Service (NHS) document The Vital Connection. Regeneration is an issue new to the NHS and so the article examines the manner in which the text on regeneration is rhetorically constructed. Specifically...