Paint Your Town Red
How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
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2021
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Repeater Books (Verlag)
978-1-913462-19-2 (ISBN)
Repeater Books (Verlag)
978-1-913462-19-2 (ISBN)
Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up
without waiting for Whitehall.
Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of one of the main advocates of the new Democratic Economy, Matthew Brown, the driving-force behind the world-recognized Preston Model.
Using analysis, interviews and case studies to explain what Matthew and Preston City Council
have done over the last decade in order to earn Preston the title of Most Improved City, the book
shows how the model can be adapted to fit different local circumstances, as well as demonstrating
how Preston itself adapted economic and democratic experiments in ‘community wealth-building’
from elsewhere in the US and Europe.
Preston’s success shows that the ideas of community wealth-building work in practice and have the
capacity to achieve a meaningful transfer of wealth and power back to local communities. A lot of
recent coverage and references have tended to oversimplify the Preston Model, which is not just
about ‘buying local’ but a comprehensive project, which envisions local and regional discussions and
collaboration adding up to a wholesale transformation of our currently failing economic systems.
without waiting for Whitehall.
Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of one of the main advocates of the new Democratic Economy, Matthew Brown, the driving-force behind the world-recognized Preston Model.
Using analysis, interviews and case studies to explain what Matthew and Preston City Council
have done over the last decade in order to earn Preston the title of Most Improved City, the book
shows how the model can be adapted to fit different local circumstances, as well as demonstrating
how Preston itself adapted economic and democratic experiments in ‘community wealth-building’
from elsewhere in the US and Europe.
Preston’s success shows that the ideas of community wealth-building work in practice and have the
capacity to achieve a meaningful transfer of wealth and power back to local communities. A lot of
recent coverage and references have tended to oversimplify the Preston Model, which is not just
about ‘buying local’ but a comprehensive project, which envisions local and regional discussions and
collaboration adding up to a wholesale transformation of our currently failing economic systems.
Rhian E. Jones is former editor of New Left Project and author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender and Petticoat Heroes. She writes for various publications including The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Morning Star.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2021 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 197 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-913462-19-6 / 1913462196 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-913462-19-2 / 9781913462192 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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