On a slightly lighter note, people might like to think about the implications for community development of the bust-up between Glasgow City Council and Demos over their report ‘The Dreaming City: Glasgow 2020 and the power of mass imagination’.  David Wilcox gives a blow by blow account on his blog.

Basically we seem to have a conflict between mutually incomprehensible jargons. Demos boasted that they had “a risky and innovative project from the outset – the first attempt to imagine the future of a city through stories and storytelling anywhere in the world” and an “innovative public participation methodology”. The City felt that their existing regeneration programmes were being unfairly dismissed.