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Soft spaces and soft outcomes : experiences from City Strategy on local partnership working and measures of success

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Adam, Duncan and Green, Anne E. (2016) Soft spaces and soft outcomes : experiences from City Strategy on local partnership working and measures of success. Environment and Planning A, 48 (8). pp. 1514-1531. doi:10.1177/0308518X16642225 ISSN 0308-518X.

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Abstract

This article uses the concepts of ‘soft spaces’ and ‘soft outcomes’ previously developed in relation to the study of local economic development and planning and applies them to the related, but not identical, field of localised welfare-to-work initiatives. The specific example of the City Strategy initiative in Great Britain provides evidence of these concepts in action. This initiative foregrounded the importance of local partnership working whereby various stakeholders joined together to operate in soft space to achieve commonly agreed goals. The article considers how local partnerships operate in soft space and the appropriate measures of success to be used when assessing the efficacy of their interventions. It is argued that both ‘soft outcomes’ and ‘hard outcomes’ can be used to understand success; but that assessment of soft spaces only in terms of ‘hard outcomes’ is far from comprehensive.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Community development, Urban, Welfare recipients -- Government policy, Unemployment, Neoliberalism -- Economic aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Environment and Planning A
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
ISSN: 0308-518X
Official Date: 7 July 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
7 July 2016Published
6 April 2016Available
7 March 2016Accepted
Volume: 48
Number: 8
Number of Pages: 35
Page Range: pp. 1514-1531
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16642225
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 23 March 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 8 July 2016

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