An Asset based approach or ABCD (EFFIGY) [PDF download]

This ‘long’ blogpost is an initial response to a paper presented to Birmingham City Council’s Hall Green District committee, Jan 20th 2015, concerning the development of a pilot asset based approach to future developments in the district.

In it I seek to explore if the City’s proposal is an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), approach, or an asset approach which is exploring how the City and its partners develop services differently in the future, within an ‘austerity framework’