How will these resources help you?

With the transfer of retail to out-of-town shopping centres and online, and the movement towards working from home since the pandemic, areas are facing urban decline and deprivation.  Regeneration is seen as the answer to breathing life back into these areas, but as these resources will demonstrate, there is more to it than shiny new buildings, cafes and restaurants. There are few resources out there on the subject aimed at secondary schools (most are at a higher level for undergraduates studying town planning). These resources have been carefully selected from Government departments in charge of ‘Levelling Up’ and professional bodies such as the RICS, and include the latest version of the book on regeneration in the UK. All of these are accessible in demonstrating that successful regeneration must improve outcomes for the community. Current textbooks are becoming outdated, but these resources provide fresh case studies (such as the renewal of Shoreditch) to give students a contemporary appreciation of the issues. The pandemic has brought its own challenges to areas that rely on tourism, and the LSE is far less positive on the successes of regeneration. Students are regularly asked to assess the extent of the success of a particular project in exams, and these resources will allow you to support their understanding with up-to-date analysis.