Leadership and place

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements We are grateful to Alan Murie, Peter Roberts and David Bailey for stimulating and encouraging our research at different times over the last two years. A great number of academic and practitioner colleagues working in urban and regional development have contributed to discussions – they are far too many to name in person, but we are indebted to them all for their insights. We are also grateful to the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service in England for their funding of our early research into this topic. Finally, we would like to thank Mark Evans for the opportunity to compile this volume.