Financialising city statecraft and infrastructure / Andy Pike, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pike, Andy, 1968- author.

O'Brien, Peter, author.

Strickland, Thomas L., author.

Thrower, Graham, author.

Tomaney, John, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--Finance.

Infrastructure (Economics).

City planning.

Physical Description:

x, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2019.

Summary:

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculati.

Contents:

1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure?

2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance

3. Towards city statecraft

4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK's centralised state

5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the city deals

6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets

7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK?

8. Conclusions

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 291-343).

ISBN:

1788118944

9781788118941

OCLC:

1079402662