Learning to build sustainable communities: an interdependency network perspective

John Lever, Ian Smith

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Abstract

This paper explores the production of sustainable communities from an interdependency network perspective (Newton, 2001). Drawing on fieldwork that examined how planners worked collaboratively with other professionals to address the challenges of delivering New Labour’s Growth Point Initiative, the paper fuses insights from Actor Network Theory with Figurational Sociology to examine the requirements of the skills agenda for building sustainable communities (ODPM, 2004). Through an exploration of the ways in which planners adapted their working practice to facilitate the dual task of delivering growth and sustainable development, we argue that the learning and skills agenda is problematic for understanding how new knowledge and learning emerges.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)113-126
Number of pages14
JournalPeople, Place and Policy
Volume7
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2013

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