Social infrastructure and left behind places

John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College London.His research interests are focused on the political economy of local and regionaldevelopment. A Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the RegionalStudies Association, he is also a trustee of Redhills: the Durham Miners’ Hall and SacristonYouth Project.Maeve Blackman worked as researcher with the Durham Miners’ Association and is currentlya senior research officer at Durham University and an associate lecturer at the Open University.She has worked extensively in the field of public engagement at the arts. She holds a PhD fromDurham University.Lucy Natarajan is Associate Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning at University CollegeLondon. Her research centres on knowledge in community engagement and spatial planning.She is the co-editor of Engaged Urban Pedagogy. Participatory Practices in Planning and Placemaking(UCL Press, 2023).Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the BartlettSchool of Planning, University College London, with a background in architecture and urbanplanning. His research centres on social and policy aspects of urban design. He has publishedin Built Environment, Regional Studies and Urban Planning.Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British Historyat University College London. Her research focuses particularly on class, gender and politics.She is co-author of Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985 (Oxford University Press, 2023).Myfanwy Taylor is Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Bartlett School of Planning, UniversityCollege London. Her research focuses on urban economic development, planning and politics,especially collaborative research with grassroots group, and she has published in InternationalJournal of Urban and Regional Research, Area and Antipode. She is a Trustee of West GreenRoad/Seven Sisters Development Trust in North London.

• 1. Introduction 2. ‘Left-behind’ places and social infrastructure 3. Methods: researching the affective dimensions of 'left behind places’ to underpin new policy approaches 4: Political economy of Sacriston 5. Moral community: the making of social infrastructure in Sacriston 6. Root shock: unmaking social infrastructure in Sacriston 7. Radical hope: remaking social infrastructure in Sacriston 8. Conclusions and policy implications