Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8041-0856
(2008)
The rise of the “city-region” concept and its development policy implications.
European Planning Studies, 16 (8).
pp. 1025-1046.
ISSN 0965-4313
Abstract
As well as enjoying a rich scientific history, the concept of the “city-region” has also attracted particular attention in recent years. Combinations of an urban core or cores, linked to semi-urban and rural hinterland by functional ties, are increasingly regarded as the “adequate” scale for the implementation of development policies. The popularization and widespread use of the city-region concept for policy-making has important implications for the design and implementation of development strategies. It first signals a change from sectoral to territorial approaches to development and requires the adjustment of development strategies to widely varying contexts, leading to much greater policy diversity and innovation. It also involves a more complex governance structure, characterized by the horizontal and vertical coordination of numerous institutional public and private actors, and enables experimentation with bottom-up and participatory policy-making. This paper evaluates these changes and critically addresses their normative implications, especially in light of the facts that there is still little agreement on how the city-region is defined, that the term has become appropriated by urban elites, and that the problems faced by city-regions may not be that different from those operating at other geographical scales.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ceps |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Taylor and Francis |
| Divisions: | European Institute Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2010 15:54 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2024 23:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30910 |
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