26 research outputs found
Mixed tenure orthodoxy: practitioner reflections on policy effects
This article examines mixed tenure as a policy orthodoxy. It first sets out how mixed tenure may be considered to constitute an orthodoxy within planning, being generally accepted as a theory and practice even in the absence of supporting evidence. Five elements of this orthodoxy are identified, relating to (1) housing and the environment, (2) social change, (3) economic impacts, (4) sustainable communities, (5) and sociospatial integration. Interviews with practitioners involved with three social housing estates that have experienced mixed-tenure policy interventions are reported to consider why the implementation and effects of mixed tenure might not correspond with the orthodox understanding. It is argued that policy ambiguity and weaknesses in policy theory and specification, alongside practical constraints, lie behind incomplete and counterproductive policy implementation, but a belief in pursuing the policy orthodoxy persists nevertheless
To the Question of the Civil Nature of Legal Succession
The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence of legal succession from the standpoint of the science of civil law. The Author proposes to consider this category to be a legal relationship of a general type. Approaches to the definition of the content of the category «legal relationship» are considered, and the differences between general and specific legal relations are analyzed. The article reveals the elements of legal relationship of legal succession of general type: subjects, object, content. The question of the object of legal relations of succession is considered in the context of a more general question of the object of civil law, civil relations and civil turnover. It is established that the content of the legal relationship of succession of the general type has a certain specificity due to the difference in the legal nature of General and specific legal relations. The situations in which on the basis of legal relations of a general type there are specific legal relations are presented. The features of the protection of the ability for legal succession are analyzed
National Evaluation of the Healthy Communities Challenge Fund: The Healthy Towns Programme in England
Background and aims  Â
This research reported here presents findings from an evaluation of the development and
implementation of the Healthy Community Challenge Fund (otherwise known as the
âHealthy Townsâ programme). A key aim of the research has been to inform the
development of future environmental and systemsâbased âwhole townâ approaches to
obesity prevention.
The overall aim of the Healthy Towns programme was to pilot and stimulate novel âwhole
townâ approaches that tackle the âobesogenicâ environment in order to reduce obesity, with
a particular focus on improving diet and increasing physical activity. Through a competitive
tender process, nine towns were selected that represented urban areas across England
ranging from small market towns to areas of large cities. The fund provided ÂŁ30 million over
the period 2008â2011, divided amongst the nine towns. The amounts awarded ranged from
ÂŁ900,000 to ÂŁ4.85 million. Towns were instructed to be innovative and were given freedom
to develop a locallyâspecific programme of interventions. This report supplements local
process and impact evaluations undertaken by each town (not reported here) by taking an
overall view of the programmeâs development and implementation.
Our evaluation therefore addressed the following research questions:
1. What kinds of interventions were delivered across the Healthy Towns programme?
2. Were environmental and infrastructural interventions equitably delivered?
3. How was the Healthy Towns programme theorised and translated into practice?
4. How was evidence used in the selection and design of interventions?
5. What are the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a systems approach
to obesity prevention
Psicologia ambiental: um esboço sobre o seu desenvolvimento em Portugal e no mundo [Environmental psychology: an essay on its development in Portugal and in the world]
Analysing incivilities in places of business open to the public: linking theory, research and practice
Mixed Evidence on Mixed Tenure Effects: Findings from a Systematic Review of UK Studies, 1995â2009
Mixed tenure is a key feature of UK housing and regeneration policy. Following an earlier review-of-reviews pertaining to mixed tenure effects (Bond et al., 2011), this paper presents a systematic review of the UK evidence published between 1999 and 2005. The majority of the available evidence is cross-sectional, mostly derived from modest-quality case-study research across nearly 100 sites, supplemented by a very few secondary studies using national data. Six broad domains of outcomes have been investigated across 27 studies. Some positive impacts of mixed tenure were found in the social and residential domains, though notably without impacts on social capital. The evidence for mixed tenure effects in the environmental, safety and economic domains is very mixed. In the human capital domain of health and education, the evidence is sparse. A stronger theoretical base (including the assessment of causal mechanisms) is required to guide future research on mixed tenure effects, which should be longer term and longitudinal in nature, using comparison case studies and secondary data