Introduction to a Debate on City-Regions: New Geographies of Governance, Democracy and Social Reproduction
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Andrew E.G. Jonas [1] ; Kevin Ward [2]
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[1] University of Hull
University of Hull
Reino Unido
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[2] University of Manchester
University of Manchester
Reino Unido
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- Localización: International journal of urban and regional research, ISSN 0309-1317, Vol. 31, Nº. 1, 2007, págs. 169-178
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In this introduction to In this introduction to a special Debates and Developments forum on city-regions, we argue that the recent revival of interest in city-regions has been constructed around a rather narrow set of empirical and theoretical issues relating to exchange, interspatial competition and globalization. The ‘new’ city-regionalism results in a reification of the city-region as an autonomous political agent of the global space economy. We outline an alternative approach to investigating and understanding geographies of city-regionalism, highlighting: a politics of governance and state re-territorialization around the city-region; the role of democracy and citizenship in city-region politics; and tensions around social reproduction and sustainability across the city-region.a special Debates and Developments forum on city-regions, we argue that the recent revival of interest in city-regions has been constructed around a rather narrow set of empirical and theoretical issues relating to exchange, interspatial competition and globalization. The ‘new’ city-regionalism results in a reification of the city-region as an autonomous political agent of the global space economy. We outline an alternative approach to investigating and understanding geographies of city-regionalism, highlighting: a politics of governance and state re-territorialization around the city-region; the role of democracy and citizenship in city-region politics; and tensions around social reproduction and sustainability across the city-region.
