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Record Nr.

UNISA996517759703316

Autore

Beel David

Titolo

City regions and devolution in the UK : the politics of representation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Policy Press, 2021

Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-4473-5501-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource 206 p..)

Collana

Civil Society and Social Change

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesMartin <1970->

Soggetti

Civil rights & citizenship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Austerity and financialisation.

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Making non-metropolitan spaces in a city-region world -- Making interstitial spaces: the Growth Deal approach revisited -- Devolved regions in action: placing North Wales -- The North Wales Growth Deal -- Discussion: Does the Growth Deal 'fit'? Critiques and caveats -- Policy discourse versus geographical reality -- Agglomeration and spatial displacement -- Conclusions -- 6 City-region limits -- Introduction -- The city-regional world revisited -- Swansea Bay City Region and City Deal -- Quite a city-regional stretch: emerging critiques -- Conflicting aspirations -- Dealing with metrophilia

Implementing welfare reform and the reduction in social protection -- Universal Credit displacing austerity on to local authorities -- The contested politics of devolution, austerity and welfare -- Conclusions -- 4 Elite city deals -- Introduction -- City regions and uneven development revisited -- Creating the Cardiff Capital Region -- Fixing central-local relations in Wales -- Cardiff Capital Region City Deal -- Placing civil society -- Struggling with the economic growth model -- Scale and accountability -- Austerity geographies -- Conclusions -- 5 Beyond cities in regions -- Introduction

'Slagheap to innovation district'? Economic governance and skills in Sheffield -- Restructuring of representational structures, new accountabilities and ongoing democratic deficits -- Austerity, uneven



development and the employment crisis -- The political economy of governance and metagovernance -- Conclusions -- 3 Precarious city regions -- Introduction -- The political economy of austerity in city regions -- The GM 'city deal': austerity and uneven development -- From welfare to increasing low pay and labour market insecurity

Making links: the state, civil society and the politics of representation -- City-region building as process, not an event -- Outline of this book -- 1 Northern powerhouses -- Introduction -- Building the city regions of the Northern Powerhouse -- Placing civil society in the city region -- Struggling with the economic rationale -- Dealing with scale and representation -- Responding and repositioning within city regions -- Social innovation and economic growth -- Conclusions -- 2 Metro governance dynamics -- Introduction

Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Lsit of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Onward devolution and city regions -- City regions, devolution, the state and the politics of representation -- City-region solutions -- City-region growth machines, neoliberalism and civil society -- City-regional worlds, critiques and missing links

Sommario/riassunto

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing city regions in Britain, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.