Abstract How might the structure of banking affect economic resilience? We address this question by analyzing how organizational structures banks and markets were associated with unemployment trajectories in local economies during Great Recession. Two county-level analyses yield convergent results. Increasing branch densities giant derivative holding within greater surges unemployment, weaker e...

A 2011 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report calculated that an additional 750,000 homes would be needed by 2025 to meet projected demand in the UK. If this is to be achieved, a significant number of new communities will be developed over the next decade. Local councillors have considerable potential in influencing the social sustainability of such new developments, particularly in...

The neighbourhood in both the UK and Europe continues to dominate thinking about the quality of life in local communities, representation and empowerment, and how local services can be delivered most effectively. For several decades a series of centrally funded programmes in neighbourhood governance have targeted localities suffering deprivation and social exclusion in England. From these much ...

This paper is concerned with the contribution that project, plan and policy appraisal can make to effective decision-making when shaping a built environment that needs to respond to the demands of local voices and also concerns for global sustainability and for population well-being. It argues that effectiveness depends on appraisal processes being both rational, based on sound science, and als...

Abstract This article revisits the 1642 Collection for relief of Protestant victims 1641 Irish Uprising. Based on an analysis all extant (English) parish returns, it explores how act charity was understood by thousands who contributed and what its consequences were popular engagement in politics a country edge civil war. Despite relative historiographical neglect seeks to show that they provide...