Under the titles of ‘global city-regions’ and the new ‘city regionalism’ there has been a
growing support for a resurgence of city-regions within economic geography. While
sympathetic to the general tenor of the new city-regionalism, this article argues for a
more synthetic approach to understanding the significance of the city-region. It is
argued that the same inherent weaknesses that undermined the previous new
regionalist orthodoxy within economic geography, have been collapsed into the present
focus upon the scale of the city-region. The article concludes by looking at the broader
implications of this for the future of economic geography
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HARRISON, J., 2007. From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (3), pp. 311-332
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