City Regions and Devolution in the UK : The Politics of Representation

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...

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Main Author: Beel, David
Other Authors: Jones, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a '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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
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