this place matters - inverness presentation

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Professor David Adams

Professor Trevor Davies

Diarmaid Lawlor

this place matters

re-thinking local leadership

What do we want our

place to be like?

How do we get there?

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this place matters


WHY Place Matters

• Places condition our lives

They matter to human

experience

• Places condition our democracy

• Good places attract

Failing places repel

• Place is the physical ‘container’

for all the people, institutions and

activities that occupy it

• Place-making involves economy,

society and environment

WHY Place Matters

Why is place so important?

• Local governance is about more

than delivering services

• It is about making places

successful, now and for the future

• It has to involve everyone

• Learning what makes places

succeed or fail should be at its heart

• It’s often no more expensive to

create successful places than failing

ones. It just needs care and

advance thought

WHY Place Matters

Shaping places is about governance

• Leadership drives forward

action, breeds confidence,

reduces risk & widens

participation

• Leadership is about

vision, culture, motivation,

resources.

• This cannot be privatised – it

needs local action within a local

democratic mandate

WHY Place Matters

Shaping places needs leadership

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Diarmaid Lawlor

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THIS Place: what you said

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• Building

perches

• The ‘feel’ of

Inverness

• Progressive

• Ambitious

• Innovative

• Future

generations

• Digital

• Mentoring

• Pathways

• Congregation spaces

to serve need

• Plinths for ideas

• Clusters for

collaboration

• Venue, entertainment,

economy

• Pause

• Socialise

• Nature

• Spot to look out

• European

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Inverness: the qualities you see

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• Left out, left

behind,

disengaged?

• “Trouble”

• Eyesores

• Detracts, setting

• Outdated, grey,

boring

• Wasted

resource

• Vacancy, emptiness

• Integration

• Vision

• Services

• Quality

• Reputation

• Not a place to

linger

• Overflow

• Ugly

• Narrow

• Tatty

• Obscured

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Inverness: the concerns you have

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Why does THIS place matter?

Why does this place matter?

Say why this place matters to you

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And find the things in common

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Where are we going?

In practice, who is leading?

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What are the relationships between leaders

and citizens?


Where are we going?


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What are the relationships between leaders

and citizens?

In practice, who is leading?What is local collaboration like?

Where are we going?

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And how does all that make you feel?


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Finding common purpose

Uncertainty to hope -

the skills of public narrative’

Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz

Leadership is taking responsibility for

enabling others to achieve

shared purpose in the face of

uncertainty


Head Heart

Action

Common Purpose

Two ways of understanding:

Professor Marshall Ganz

green

MOTIVATORS

urgency inertia

anger apathy

hope fear

solidarity isolation

You can make a

differenceself-doubtO

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Common Purpose

INHIBITORS


Public Narrative is…

a skill to motivate others…

…to join you in action


story of

selfcall to leadership

story of

nowstrategy & action

story of

usshared values &

shared experience

PURPOSE


The Story of your future part 1

What values led you to public action?

And imagine big changes based on those values

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Common Purpose

What is the common ground in your values?


Common Purpose

What is the common ground in your values?

Using common ground, dream the big changes here by 2025



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Founding on Values

action

• Values inspire action

through emotion

• Emotions inform us of

what we value

• Decisions to act are

based on judgements of

value

Values into Action


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S Schwartz 2006 adapted by L Higgins

N Pecorelli 2013 for IPPR

Schwartz’s Values Wheel

Prospector

Settler

Pioneer

Professor Marshall Ganz Common Purpose

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What makes a successful place?

5 characteristics of successful places• Places intended for people

• Well connected & permeable places

• Places of mixed use & varied density

• Distinctive places

• Sustainable, resilient & robust places

WHY Place Matters

Places intended for people

• Successful places attract

people, and encourage them

to linger and return

• The more diverse the

activities on offer, the more

people will come

• But people want to feel safe,

comfortable & not be

overwhelmed by traffic or

the scale of the environment

WHY Place Matters

Well connected & permeable places

• Successful places allow

people to move in & through

them easily, especially on

foot or bicycle

• They have meeting places

and stopping places

• Places that are better

connected and easily

accessible attract more

trade & are more lively

WHY Place Matters

Places of mixed use & varied density

• Towns traditionally grew &

developed as a patchwork of

mixed activities & uses

• But, until recently, developers

and planners have preferred to

separate out activities & uses

• Mixing up uses within any

building, street or area brings

variety and vitality to places.

What should be the limits to

this?

WHY Place Matters

Sustainable, resilient & robust places• Sustainable design means

creating places that last for

generations & reduce

climate change

• Places that are resilient

‘bounce back’ from

unexpected change

• Places that are robust are

flexible enough to modified

without excessive

disruption

WHY Place Matters

Distinctive placesSuccessful places places are

distinctive & memorable

But too many places across the

UK are virtually the same, with

the same house types, same

national chain stores, and the

same branded restaurants

Let’s tackle urban monotony by

encouraging places to be

different!

WHY Place Matters

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Stuart BlackDirector of Development and Infrastructure

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Key Issues

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Drive times from Inverness

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Inverness 1907

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Inverness 1959

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Inverness 2009

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Tackling inequality

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City centre regeneration

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5 Inverness Central: 5.9%

4 Inverness Ness-side: 6.2%

2011 census : Scotland’s

Top 20 cycle-to-work wards

19 Nairn: 4.4%

7 Inverness Milburn: 5.4%

8 Inverness West: 5.2%

Low carbon city

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Enabling infrastructure

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University city

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Good growth for cities indexDemos-PwC

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BREAK!

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Reflections

The story so far

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Building your future


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Re-imagine your future.

Be clear on values and characteristics of success

Tell the story of getting from now till then …….

Getting there: Actors, Assets, Leaders

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Who were the successful change-makers/leaders?

What assets and resources did they have?

What did they do?

What part of your future did they change?

Looking back:

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BUT THAT FUTURE DIDN’T HAPPEN! Why?

Getting there: Oops!

What were the barriers and blocks to your future?

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The tools to lead

… we don’t use it properly?… our toolbox is empty?

Does place leadership fail because …

Common Purpose

To shape places, we need effective

policy tools

How well stocked is our

policy toolbox?

How well used in our

policy toolbox?

Common Purpose

What might we expect to find in the well-

stocked policy toolbox?

‘Shaping’

instruments

‘Capacity

building’

instruments

‘Regulating’

instruments

‘Stimulus’

instruments

Common Purpose

• Spatial visions, strategies,

plans, frameworks etc.

• Promote integrated thinking and

enable collective action

• Can involve strategic

transformation of whole areas

• Successful strategies have the

‘power of persuasion’ – they

can radically change what

people think is achievable

Shaping tools

Common Purpose

Regulating tools

Restrict choices by regulating

what people can & cannot do

Most effective when they

persuade people to follow policy

intent, rather than just give up on

their plans

Require consistent application

and effective enforcement

Common Purpose

Stimulus toolsOpen up opportunities by ‘making

things happen’ through:

Actions to kick-start development

by direct state intervention

Development grants, taxation

incentives and other price-adjusting

actions

Holistic place management and

other risk-reducing actions

Public-private partnerships and

other capital-raising actions

Common Purpose

Capacity building tools

Learn to think afresh, be open to new ideas, and learn from best practice

Gain knowledge & information, especially about market actors & operations

Build networks & relationships across the public, private & voluntary sectors

Develop skills & capabilities in leadership, project management & cross-sectoral working

Local leaders will:

Common Purpose

Leadership capacity

Strategic

Capacity

MotivationEmbed

Learning

Salient Knowledge


Good leaders seek 'strategic

capacity' in the organisations the

lead:

knowledge of what matters

learning embedded in

everything the organisation

does

strong motivation conveyed

from the leaders to everyone

Common Purpose

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Building your future


THIS Place

Tell the story of getting from now till then …….

IN THAT FUTURE:

What we have and how we got here

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REFLECTIONS

Feedback and Learning

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• Voices

• Empathy

• Power

• Connection

• Shared responsibility

• Follow through

• Looking forward to the

bus

• Leadership is us

• Learning place for all

• Access for all

• Connection of thinking

• Recogniseable

leadership

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Start the conversation from

a different place

Democratic structure

Listening

Delivering the direction

AMBITION

this isn’t Manhattan mate…

Inverness: us, here, now

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Opportunities for

young people;

stay, leave, return

Confidence,

change, nature of

the place

Competitive

pride, chosen to

live here

Wellbeing

Home

pride

Beauty,

passion

Why does Inverness matter to you?

THIS Place

Governance gap:

the Belgium

problem

Missing voices

Not just the 5%

Fragmented

Fearful

disengaged

Is there a

shareddirection?

honesty

What is the relation between leaders and citizens?

Good parts,

partnership

THIS Place

More than

meeting; follow

through

“empowered

collaboration”:

listened to, make

a difference

City as a whole

Top down/bottom up

Talk regularly

Event specific

Short term focused

Long term: talk,not

do

What is collaboration like?

Authenticity

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Feelings…..

Feelings….

Where is this going?

frustration

despair

uncomfortable

scepticalOptimistic

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Looking forward

to the bus

Learning place,

for all

Leadership is us

Access for

everyone:more than

rising tide

Inverness

2025

Inverness: Physical setting

Inverness in 1874

Inverness in 1907

Inverness in 1959

Inverness in 2009

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City centre

regeneration

Enabling

infrastructure

Carbon clever

University city

Tackling

inequality

How do we get there?

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A connection of thinking:

vision-city region/city

Fit for purpose

governance,

recogniseable leadership

Fix locally, and fight

globally

Champion within/without

Quality, ambition, design

Not dumbing down

Leading together

Communities designing

their places, attracting

work and jobs

Values and stories: Part 2

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• City champion

• Break silos

• Stick with vision

• Small things that make

a difference

• Stabilise communities.

People stay

• Changemaker listened

• University/cultural lead

• Inverness ‘Boris’

Changemakers

Conversations with

completely different

people; leadership

flows

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Failure

Diversion Division

Determination Dither: 5%

But, remember the importance of the journey

What is failure?

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Failure

Diversion Division

Determination Dither: 5%

AND remember reality. Failure is broken promises

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Futures…..

Feelings….

Inclusive, vibrant,

expanding

Vibrant city in the

highlands

Whole-ness

Welcome, confident,

linked ,distinctive,

aspirational,

contentedsecureA place we long to

live, fulfil ambitions

ambition

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INFORMATION

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