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