Advocating industry in London: Audit, Reveal, Promote
- Submitting institution
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10.32
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Design Processes
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Action research to reveal to policymakers, built-environment designers and local
communities the significance of industry to London’s economy. Aiming to persuade local
and national governance and local stakeholders to protect existing industry in London,
expand industrial areas through policy protection, and promote densification of industrial
activities through design by answering the following key research questions;
● How can London’s local industrial economies best be revealed, so policymakers
and other stakeholders can appreciate their civic, social and economic value?
● What can persuade stakeholders to take part in local planning processes?
● What can contribute to the emergence of new community-based networks that
represent the interests of disenfranchised stakeholders?
● What actions influence the decision-making by those in power towards retention
and densification of industry?
The actions taken were: ‘audits’ (quantitative and qualitative research to reveal the nature
of the industrial economy in a locality) in London’s localities; publications, exhibitions,
participatory design workshops; collaborating with policymakers and local grassroots
groups. Dissemination formed part of the action research methodology: participation in
events, talks/lectures and meetings with stakeholders and policymakers were used to
promote the ideas to those in power. Public talks and lectures; events for policymakers
and voters; exhibitions of audit findings; articles in the trade press; meetings with
policymakers at Borough and London level; both in the UK and internationally.
Retaining and intensifying industry in contemporary cities is an important priority for
sustainable growth. Therefore, it is important to establish methods which work to reveal
the value of industry to agencies which hold power in urban space. The research has
impacted London by creating new stakeholder networks and strengthening existing ones.
The methodology has been adopted in Brussels and caused a change in direction of urban
policy towards retention and densification of industrial uses in the Buda, Molenbeek and
other areas.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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