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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beel, David.

Contributor:

Jones, Martin, 1970-

Series:

Civil Society and Social Change

Language:

English

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2021

Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

4 Elite city deals

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

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

3 Precarious city regions

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

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

2 Metro governance dynamics

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

Notes:

Austerity and financialisation.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4473-5501-6

OCLC:

1237867327

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access