Initial growth in Internet use in the 1990s resulted in many digital pioneers viewing new
information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a means to radically empower …

This article seeks to reposition understandings of local neighbourhood organising in the UK,
which has often been approached through the lens of neighbourhood policy initiatives and …

Local governments around the world are increasingly coproducing services with citizens,
commonly as a response to austerity. A common approach is to use 'citizen sensors', relying …

In Scotland, innovative designs for community engagement have been developed by
national and local governments, public authorities, and civil society organisations, leading to …

In recent years some commentators have looked at successive waves of UK urban policy
from the perspective of gender, although these commentaries have been somewhat …

This article explores the dynamics of UK neighbourhood policy in a new way, by bringing
together an attention to emotions and identities in social policy governance with approaches …

Habermas' critical theory, and particularly his theory of communicative action, has been
applied in the theory and practice of communicative planning. The concept of creating a …

A decade of austerity has amplified concern about who gets what from public services. The
article considers the socio-economic and gendered impacts of cuts to local environmental …

The growth of social media over the past decade has transformed how we have interacted
with the World Wide Web. This paper presents data from a research project coproduced with …

The emergence of geographic concentrations of non-heterosexual individuals–so-called
“gaybourhoods”–is often linked to housing, demographic characteristics of the non-straight …