Woodcraft, SB; (2016) Reconfiguring “the Social” in Sustainable Development: Community, Citizenship and Innovation in New Urban Neighbourhoods. In: McDonagh, P and Murphy, F, (eds.) Envisioning Sustainabilities: Towards Anthropology of Sustainability. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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In April 2014 London’s Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a 250-year old organization that describes its purpose as finding innovation and practical solutions to today’s social challenges, organized a conference titled “Developing Socially Productive Places”. The event brought 100 delegates to the RSA’s central London office to debate how investment in the built environment can strengthen local communities by contributing to economic and social productivity. Among the conference delegates were urban planners, architects, property developers, housing associations, local government officials, social enterprises, and a former housing minister. The RSA’s Chief Executive, Matthew Taylor, introduced the conference by calling on delegates to consider the importance of gaining a deep understanding of how communities work and how people understand their own places in order to make investments in the built environment more effective. He invited delegates to collectively develop new approaches, policies, and potentially institutions, to make this happen.

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