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Governing beyond the metropolis: Placing the rural in city-region development
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posted on 2020-10-22, 10:59 authored by John HarrisonJohn Harrison, Jesse HeleyDespite a select group of urban centres generating a disproportionate amount of global economic output, significant attention is being devoted to the impact of urban-economic processes on interstitial spaces lying between metropolitan areas. Nevertheless, there remains a noticeable silence in city-region debate concerning how rural spaces are conceptualised, governed and represented. In this paper we draw on recent city-region developments in England and Wales to suggest a paralysis of city-region policymaking has ensued from policy elites constantly swaying between a spatially-selective, city-first, agglomeration perspective on city-regionalism and a spatially-inclusive, region-first, scalar approach which fragments and divides territorial space along historical lines. In the final part we provide a typology of functionally dominant city-region constructs which we suggest offers a way out from the paralysis that currently grips city-region policymaking.
Funding
This work was conducted as part of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) programme, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council [grant number RES-576-25-0021] and Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, and also supported by the department of Geography, Loughborough University.
History
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Urban StudiesVolume
52Issue
6Pages
1113 - 1133Citation
HARRISON, J. and HELEY, J., 2015. Governing beyond the metropolis: placing the rural in city-region development. Urban Studies, 52(6), pp. 1113-1133.Publisher
SAGE © Urban Studies Journal LimitedVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2014-05-07Notes
This article was published in the journal, Urban Studies [SAGE © Urban Studies Journal Limited] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098014532853ISSN
0042-0980Publisher version
Language
- en