1. Mind the Gap. The Theory and Practice of State Rescaling: Institutional Morphology and the 'New' City-regionalism.
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Lord, Alex
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ECONOMIC policy , *ECONOMIC development , *REGIONAL economics , *REGIONALISM , *LOCALISM (Political science) , *REPRESENTATIVE government - Abstract
The repeated reterritorialisation of economic development policy has resulted in a congested institutional environment characterised by a confused, and confusing, nested spatial hierarchy of interventions. Nevertheless, advocacy for perpetual institutional manoeuvring has proceeded largely unchecked leaving important questions unanswered regarding both the desirability of adding to/modifying the institutional landscape of cities and also the viability of such policies in light of existing attachments to long-established administrative geographies. In calling for further research, this paper conducts a preliminary investigation of the mutation of sub-city Urban Regeneration Companies (URCs) into city-regional City Development Companies (CDCs) and suggests the expansive critical realist epistemology as a potentially worthwhile methodological starting-point. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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