Over the course of 2 and half years, Urban Regeneration Mix Transfer Network has been seeking to enable a new approach to urban regeneration. Framed by the good practice , the network has sought to influence the process of regeneration so that it includes greater community involvement and engagement, so that it brings social and environmental benefits, and so that it challenges the orthodoxy of the way in which regeneration has been undertaken historically in a European context.
As part of this wider set of activities, our Transfer Network asked Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson to provide Ad-Hoc Expertise around the topic of public procurement. All of us felt it would be important that if a new approach to regeneration was to be realised, then there also had to be a focus upon procurement – and particularly how municipalities spend their own money and encourages others such as developers and regenerators to think about how they do so.
Read more about it in our new product created by ad hoc expert Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson.