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View article: Advancing People-Centred, Place-Based Approaches
Advancing People-Centred, Place-Based Approaches Open
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View article: Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’ Open
The ‘pride in place’ mission of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda has foregrounded the importance of feelings in local and national development strategies. While pride in place gestures to the emotional symptoms of geographical inequ…
View article: "Pride in place" beyond the metrics: Insights from the Feeling Towns project
"Pride in place" beyond the metrics: Insights from the Feeling Towns project Open
Current metrics for measuring “pride in place” are underdeveloped, and the language of pride has been used inconsistently across Levelling Up policy materials. This brief uses insights from the Feeling Towns project to make recommendations…
View article: Gay Bod
Gay Bod Open
In 2017, Kingston-upon-Hull celebrated becoming UK City of Culture (‘Hull2017’). Organisers of the cultural mega-event hoped to restore civic pride amongst residents of Hull, which had been severely affected ever since its North Sea fishin…