Quality of Life and Public Management: Redefining Development in the Local Environment

Part 1: What is Best Practice and how do we define Excellence 1. A Tale of 3 Cities and Two Rural Areas (Freiburg, Roskilde, Basel, rural North Rhine Westphalia and rural Switzerland) 2. Defining Excellence Part 2: The Devil is in the Detail 3. Children 4. Older People 5. Built Environment 6. Air Quality 7. Renewable Energy 8. Peak Oil, Climate Change and Resilience 9. City-City Comparisons Part 3: Good ideas are great but how do we make things happen? 10. What do they do that we don't do: Budgets, Councillors and the Power to Act 11. How can we capture the Excellence Virus and release it in the UK? 12. Conclusions