Product Description

Citing current practice, this book explains strategic processes, new forms of regeneration management and changing managerial roles. A valuable professional resource, it presents a balanced approach using both theoretical and practical material.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1366280 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 226 pages

Review

'This text provides readers of all levels with an understanding of the choices, challenges and dilemmas that face regeneration managers, synthesizing theory with practice and their criticality within a clear theoretical framework.'

- Annotated Books

From the Back Cover

Stemming from a need to understand strategic processes, examine current practices, and identify the needs of regeneration management professionals, this book cites current regeneration management practice within a framework which critically examines the theoretical models developed over the past twenty years. It features illustrative case studies, learning objectives, key themes boxes, and review and reflection segments, and explains strategic processes and new forms of local, sub-regional and regional management. It also investigates the development and extension of the roles of regeneration managers (which increasingly illustrate the uneven and contradictory nature of this subject), and raises important issues regarding how such individuals are supported and developed. This book:

• examines current initiatives in order to present good practice
• provides practitioners and students with an understanding of the choices, challenges and dilemmas faced by regeneration managers
• focuses on the themes of partnership, capacity building and community engagement, participation and sustainability
• has an accompanying web page featuring downloadable PowerPoint slides and test blanks.

A valuable resource for public sector managers, and urban management professionals, this book synthesises strategic literature and applies it within a changing local, sub regional and regional governance system. Providing a clear framework within which new models of strategy and implementation can be found, it presents a balanced approach between existing theory and practical case material.

About the Author
John Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Urban Policy Studies at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK.
Joyce Liddle is Lecturer in Strategic Management at Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK.

Customer Reviews

A Partnership Workers Perspective
I bought this book with a view to improving my understanding of partnership working as a practitioner, upon first reading it a number of aspects immediately struck me. The first was the user friendly format, whilst to some it may make it reminiscent of a text book I found the sections at the start of the chapters pointing out the key themes and learning points useful; as are the sections at the end of the chapter identifying discussion points, further reading and case studies. The second aspect is the style of writing; this is accessible and focuses on communicating the information with the minimum of jargon. When looking at the content it is interesting to note that although there is only one chapter explicitly on Partnership Working the other chapters are all relevant to this form of working and in other texts on Partnership or Collaborative Working are often included under that heading.

If you are looking for a book that provides definitive answers on how to implement area wide initiatives such as the management of regeneration then this book is not for you. If you are looking for a book that will develop your knowledge and understanding of some of the key issues and possible approaches to addressing these issues such that you can develop solutions relevant to your specific problem then I would strongly recommend this book to you.