London, February 2004

Greg Clark

LSE Seminar Programme.What do practitioners do with

urban research?

15 years of urban and regional research

• London and World Cities.– C& L/LPAC 1990 to Working Capital 2003.

• Cities and Urban Policy.– Evaluating the Impact of Urban Policy 1996

to State of the Cities 2004.

• Urban Management.– Eg BIDs, 1996 study, 2004 implementation.

What is a Practitioner Perspective?

Learning from other practices. Good and Bad.Implementation the key variable; not policy.Factors that promote effective implementation.Factors that inhibit effective implementation.Focus on means to achieve ends, not just ends.Avoid copying policies from elsewhere without understanding

what makes them work.Good strategy and policy is very important but meaningless

without implementation.Good implementation occurs even without good strategy and

policy occasionally.Focus on the reality of how to get things done.Influence policy to make it more implementation-ready.

OECD city responses to Globalisation: opportunities and challenges. 1-6

Vision, strategy, foresight, resource mobilisation, alignment.Barcelona, Melbourne, Turin.

Identity, Marketing, Branding, Promotion.Montreal, Sydney, Frankfurt.

Connectivity, Openness, Internal and External Receptivity.Paris, Athens, Amsterdam

Quality of Life/Place and Public service excellence, esp workforce.Vancouver, Melbourne, Vienna, Copenhagen.

Metropolitan and city regional scale and governance.Washington DC, Toronto, London, Auckland.

Major Catalytic Projects.Barcelona, Bilbao, Turin, Miami.

OECD city responses to Globalisation: opportunities and challenges. 7-12

Diverse Economy, Productive/Innovative Milieu. Business Networks.Helsinki, Los Angeles, Lyon.

New national interface. Clout and flexible investment.New York, Berlin, Dublin.

New population access and settlement.Miami, Toronto, London.

Build the Urban Management tool box.Chicago, Berlin, London, Rome, Rotterdam.

Economic Inclusion paths.Glasgow, Dublin, Amsterdam.

Sweating Assets and Building Capacity.San Diego, Philadelphia,

OECD city initiatives for economic inclusion

Labour market transition.

Informal economy strategy.

Investment instruments with local reach.

Settlement and conversion programmes.

New forms of entrepreneurship.

Procurement and supply chain value.

People and place progressing together. Place equity.

Corporate responsibility and tackling discrimination.