in Regeneration and Renewal here.

Snip:

“In Britain, we teach people that they are powerless. This is evident in the regeneration sector, where professionals still identify groups of people as a problem and do things to them rather than with them. There is a clear distinction between having power over people and power with people, and a lot of the work we do seeks to reprogramme people to recognise that they have power and it can be put to good use. We are building an alliance of people who are fascinated by making change happen on their own. This is not a new, radical approach: up until the Second World War this was how people did politics.”