ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceeding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the de-industrialisation, matters of legacy, inheritance, loss and gain gendered-generational transitions in 'public'/'private' space cultural re-branding of old areas/buildings, regenerative/degenerative landscapes and architectures. In considering place-based 'impact', various ways of seeing and hearing have to be considered; the policy relevance of regenerative 'impact' produces geographies of responsibility- and geographies of irresponsibility- as capacity and culpability are attached to certain classed communities and individuals, while structural violence of 'Big Society' times, is effaced. Many warned of empty, depleted returns and shifting balances between research-teaching in an 'all change' moment. Being geographically 'far away' in writing-up this research leaves me wondering about what is held between educational journeys and distances; how might long-standing teaching and research expertise as public commitments be effaced in positioning these as 'new efforts' to be balanced, grasped and practiced in 'new times'.
