ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter (Chapter 7) highlights how there has been a paradigmatic shift in both the process and delivery of regeneration within the UK and beyond. In essence, the era of the state underwriting regeneration activity – certainly in the context of the UK – has passed and there is now an increasing concern with decentralising responsibility and activity to a wider range of stakeholders. But in turn, the chapter notes how this raises new and important questions over the institutions, actors, strategies and scales that may be privileged and the influence of the state and other political interests therein, especially in the context of ‘Brexit’. In this respect, there has arguably an increasing prioritisation of ‘the urban’, while rural-urban interdependencies are not yet being explored sufficiently.
