[Ssf] Today's exercise...

[Chris Malins]

Translation from a mad scientist:



Peter Hall has divided schemes from the 90's to help housing estates 
into two categories:

	a) inward-looking
	b) outward-facing.

The inward-looking schemes encourage a self-reliant community, the 
outward facing schemes tries to use links to nearby successful areas.

Depending on whether schemes are assessed in the outward-facing 
economically focussed fashion, or by consultation and focus on 
residents, different conclusions will be reached.

The inward-looking schemes will want to make the estate nicer, and 
invest in staff and resources. This is unlikely to help neighbouring areas.

Outward-facing schemes will try to get a better class of people to move 
in, by minimising the need to engage within the existing community. HMR 
does this.

A neighbourhood in the middle of lots of other crappy estates is in the 
shit, so instead of investing in it we should boost the local economy. 
The locals will want an immediate investment and improvement in the 
area, rather than all the money being spent on creating jobs for the 
sort of people who currently don't live there.

HMR Pathfinder programs want to even out economic differences between 
areas, while New Deal for the Community programs want to improve an area 
for the community that actually lives there, so that it isn't such a 
crap hole anymore.

Maybe we should try to make places nicer AND improve their economies.

It will be hard to both improve communities and their economies, if the 
economic improvement is based on knocking the community down and 
building expensive houses for rich guys.


There's my translation, I think it hits the salient points. Any 
thoughts. Do I get a gold star?

Chris

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