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Beel David
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Titolo: |
City regions and devolution in the UK : the politics of representation
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Pubblicazione: | Bristol, : Policy Press, 2021 |
Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2021 | |
©2021 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource 206 p..) |
Soggetto topico: | Civil rights & citizenship |
Soggetto non controllato: | Austerity; City Region; Civil Society; Devolution; Governance |
Altri autori: |
JonesMartin <1970->
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | City regions and devolution in the UK ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4473-5501-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996517759703316 |
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