Quite apart from the diversity of situations in small and medium-sized towns, stabilising their town centres is a major challenge. In both countries, town centres have been weakened by commercial changes, a decline in the supply of services and transformations in lifestyles. They are...

Amidst the catastrophe of COVID-19, segments of the population globally experienced changes in their perspectives on life and the desire to live a more fulfilling life. The study here examines this emergent trend with secondary data available as published survey reports and personal observations...

The measurement of urban streetscape quality facilitates the identification of street regeneration. The emerging Street View image and semantic segmentation have recently proven assistance for investigating urban spatial quality. However, current studies using Google Street View (GSV) cannot...

I use mixed-income public housing regenerations in London as a natural experiment to identify how schools affect low-income students’ educational achievement when affluent households flow into their neighborhood. I compare student achievement in schools of the same neighborhood located at...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: “King Coal” and modern mining history -- Politics of coal -- The European energy system in an age of globalisation -- Between political continuity and new deal: The energy sector in France in the 1960s -- The French oil industry under the...

We discuss case studies of three South Island small towns: Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru and their wider local authority jurisdictions, focusing on how local stake-holders are defining the issues facing these places and identifying, prioritising and investing in regeneration initiatives,...