Consistent with discussions about public art and creative place-making in processes of rural
settlement regeneration, this paper reports an enquiry into the recent appearance of large …

In this paper we reflect on the interlinkages between social impact assessment and
evaluation and, in particular, realist evaluation. To examine the connections between these …

Derived from a wider study of place-based economic, social, cultural and environmental
regeneration initiatives in small regional New Zealand towns, and reflecting on international …

This case study reports a two-phase research project into tourism development in a rural
district, Timaru, in the South Island of New Zealand. It addresses a lack of research into …

Rural and small town New Zealand is undergoing significant demographic and economic
transitions. Steady out-migration, economic change and population aging since the …

Purpose The authors report a study of heritage conservation linked to rural small-town
regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of this study is to answer the question …

Compared with other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) New Zealand's engagement with regional and local development has …

Remote rural areas have encountered significant change and the need for renegotiation of
economic and social priorities in the late 20th and early 21st century. In our broader …

From both a theoretical and an applied perspective, considerable progress has been made
in establishing an intellectual basis and set of methods and principles for assessing the …

Urban regeneration is the act of improving a place or system, especially by making it more
lively and successful, and has long been an active field of research in urban studies. Much …