46 research outputs found
Scenario planning for the Edinburgh city region
This paper examines the application of scenario planning techniques to the detailed and daunting challenge of city re-positioning when policy makers are faced with a heavy history and a complex future context. It reviews a process of scenario planning undertaken in the Edinburgh city region, exploring the scenario process and its contribution to strategies and policies for city repositioning. Strongly rooted in the recent literature on urban and regional economic development, the text outlines how key individuals and organisations involved in the process participated in far-reaching analyses of the possible future worlds in which the Edinburgh city region might find itself
Balancing London? A Preliminary Investigation of the âCore Citiesâ and âNorthern Wayâ Spatial Policy Initiatives Using Multi-City Corporate and Commercial Law Firms
This article was published in the journal, European Planning Studies [Routledge (© Taylor & Francis)] and the definitive version is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654311003791325This paper reports a preliminary investigation into the economic efficacy of two
spatial frameworks â English Core Cities and the Northern Way â recently
promoted by national policy makers. We ask whether they are consistent with
contemporary economic process in the UK space economy through analyses of
commercial multi-city law firms. The latter are treated as an âindicator sectorâ to
define the contemporary UK space economy as practised by law firms. Within
this new space of flows, the location strategies of the law firms do confirm the
salience of the Northern Way (as trans-Pennine corridor) and Core Cities as part
of a larger UK metropolitan space of flows. Conflating the two spatial frameworks
leads us to identify hints of a rebalancing of London within a metropolitan UK
space. A Manchester polycentric mega-city region is found to be the likely
candidate for this role. This finding in no way impinges on Londonâs dominant
global role and we conclude that perhaps mutuality between London and
provincial cities is beginning to replace past negative dependency relations
To know or not to know:should crimes regarding photographs of their child sexual abuse be disclosed to now-adult, unknowing victims?
This paper considers the unexplored question of whether unaware crime victims have rights or interests in knowing and not knowing information pertaining to the crime(s) committed against them. Our specific focus is on whether crimes regarding abusive images (AI) should be disclosed to now-adult victims of child sexual abuse who feature in them. Because these issues have not been addressed in the victimology or criminological literature, we utilise literature in another discipline - health care ethics and law - to inform our analysis. Through engaging with the debate on the right to know and not to know information concerning oneâs genetic status, we develop a conceptualisation of the issues regarding unknowing AI victims. A rights-based conceptualisation proves to be largely inappropriate; we contend that, instead, it would be more productive to look to unknowing AI victimsâ interests. We argue that the interests at stake are grounded in autonomy and/or spatial privacy, and that in order to find a way to resolve the disclosure dilemma, these interests must be considered alongside consequentialist concerns; disclosing information regarding AI could empower now-adult victims but could well cause them (further) harm. Finally, we consider the implications of our analysis for victimology