Cities and regions in crises : the political economy of sub-national economic development / Martin Jones (Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Martin, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Crisis management.

Economic development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions. Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy failure and how it is impacted by flux surrounding economic development. With constant changes to legislation, institutional initiatives, and ministerial responsibility, local and regional economic development is shown to be at a critical crossroads. Theoretically innovative and empirically focused, this timely book is a must-read for researchers and policy-makers of urban geography, regional development, political economy and public policy.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Introduction: Geographical political economy, neoliberalism, and the crisis space impedimenta state

Part I The new localism

1. Government and governance

2. Urban crisis and contradiction

3. Zones of welfare and workfare

Part II The new regionalism

4. Regional development agencies

5. Spaces of regionalism

6. City region building

Part III The new new localism

7. Locality making

8. Devolution dynamics

9. Devolution depoliticisation

Part IV Alternatives to neoliberalism

10. Developing inclusive growth

11. Beyond withered local states

Postscript: The stoke road to Brexit

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781788117456 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.