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Social Infrastructures for Post-Growth Value Generation: School-Based Initiatives in London

Natarajan, Lucy; (2025) Social Infrastructures for Post-Growth Value Generation: School-Based Initiatives in London. Built Environment , 51 (1) pp. 113-131. 10.2148/benv.51.1.113. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper investigates the stimulation of value through social infrastructures; it explores the potential of public educational facilities focusing on an initiative in London known as ‘School Superzones’. There is growing attention on how the social underpinnings of places might generate alternative forms of economic value. Given that top-down and growth focused types of interventions fail to deliver on maintaining long-term community wellbeing, social infrastructures might off er a route to non-growth dependent alternatives. As shown in this paper, the telos of School Superzones is the generation of local social value and place-based liveability, and that they open up partnership routes to rework expectations of returns from monetary investments. While they face challenges inherent in existing dependencies and relationships in London, and their wellbeing impacts will take time to evidence, they demonstrate post-growth directions through school partnerships and the importance of nurturing in-kind volunteered eff orts and growing social capital.

Type: Article
Title: Social Infrastructures for Post-Growth Value Generation: School-Based Initiatives in London
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2148/benv.51.1.113
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.51.1.113
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: child health; planning; schools; social infrastructure; social value
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203281
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