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Territorial Policy and Governance: Alternative Paths book cover

1st Edition

Territorial Policy and Governance Alternative Paths

Edited By Iain Deas, Stephen Hincks Copyright 2017
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking. As local and regional policy actors strive to respond to the geographically uneven effects of the economic crises of the early twenty-first century, a crucial question emerges: what are the opportunities and challenges presented by alternative forms of... Read more

List of illustrations



List of contributors



Acknowledgements





1 Introduction



Iain Deas and Stephen Hincks





Part I



Multi-scalar concepts and practices of regionalism





2 New localism, new localities …



Martin Jones





3 Evolving conceptions of regional policy in Europe and their influence across different territorial scales



Philip O’Brien, Olivier Sykes and David Shaw





4 Constructing alternative paths to city-region policy and governance



John Harrison





Part II



Flexible regionalism: soft spaces in theory and practice





5 Alternative planning spaces



Graham Haughton and Philip Allmendinger





6 Multi-level geographies of trans-boundary cooperation in Catalonia: governance, planning and ‘cross-border spaces of regionalist engagement’



Claire Colomb Francesc Morata Tierra, Antoni Dura Guimera and Xavier Oliveras Gonzalez





Part III



Mobility and circularity in urban–regional policy





7 Business improvement districts in the United Kingdom: territorialising a ‘global’ model?



Kevin Ward and Ian Cook





8 ‘Where it’s at’: fashions and fads in British local economic-development policy



Alex Lord





Part IV



Embedding environmental concerns in regional governance and policy





9 From ecotopia to heterotopia: alternative pathways to territorialising the environment



Andrew Karvonen





10 The implications of the low-carbon economy for the politics and practice of regional development



David Gibbs, Andrew E.G. Jonas and Aidan While





11 The production and consumption of urban-climatology science in New York City’s PlaNYC



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Biography

Iain Deas is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Manchester, UK.



Stephen Hincks is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Manchester, UK.

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