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Professor David Adams
Professor Trevor Davies
Diarmaid Lawlor
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What do we want our
place to be like?
How do we get there?
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Professor David Adams
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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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engaging
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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• Outdated, grey,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?
In practice, who is leading?
Where are we going?
In practice, who is leading?
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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?
In practice, who is leading?
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Professor Trevor Davies
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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
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
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
VER
CO
MES
Common Purpose
INHIBITORS
Professor Marshall Ganz
Public Narrative is…
a skill to motivate others…
…to join you in action
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
story of
selfcall to leadership
story of
nowstrategy & action
story of
usshared values &
shared experience
PURPOSE
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
The Story of your future part 1
What values led you to public action?
And imagine big changes based on those values
Common Purpose
The Story of your future part 1
What values led you to public action?
And imagine big changes based on those values
Common Purpose
What is the common ground in your values?
What values led you to public action?
Common Purpose
What is the common ground in your values?
Using common ground, dream the big changes here by 2025
The Story of your future part 1
And imagine big changes based on those values
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Professor Trevor Davies
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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
Common PurposeProfessor Marshall Ganz
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S Schwartz 2006 adapted by L Higgins
N Pecorelli 2013 for IPPR
Schwartz’s Values Wheel
Prospector
Settler
Pioneer
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Professor David Adams
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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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Workshop
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Building your future
The Story of your future part 2
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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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Professor David Adams
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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
Professor Marshall Ganz
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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Workshop
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Building your future
The Story of your future part 3
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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
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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
www.thisplacematters.org.uk