Ever since Thatcher’s Teesside stroll,breathing life into blighted areas has met with mixed success. Understanding what might work is a step in the fair directionIt became known as her “walk in the wilderness”: Margaret Thatcher, with handbag and heels, and picking her way through a rubble-strewn no man’s land on Teesside. “She’s here to see for herself!” said the local Evening Gazette.
That was in 1987,when scores of factories, steelworks and mines had closed in what was to be a decades-long de-industrialisation process. Central and local governments have battled ever since, or with varying success,to breathe life into these areas.
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Source: theguardian.com