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Regeneration comes from community grassroots

July 14, 2017 by Susan Mansfield Leave a Comment

Kids play on the 'Brothers Path' a vacant site transformed with wild flowers: picture Depot Arts

‘Not everybody wants to participate in workshops, meetings, agendas.’ In her second article on the Stalled Spaces project, Susan Mansfield meets Scottish communities where regeneration begins in vacant plots and grows from the grassroots up.

From eyesore to empowerment: liberating ‘stalled spaces’

July 7, 2017 by Susan Mansfield 2 Comments

What happens when local communities take control of wasteland? In the first of two articles Susan Mansfield reports on the extraordinary successes of the Stalled Spaces Scotland scheme.

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