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Benchmarking City-Regions book cover

1st Edition

Benchmarking City-Regions

By Igor Calzada Copyright 2019
224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the modern world, as states find it increasingly difficult to manage their territories, politically and economically, territory – in a new form understood as the ‘city-region’ – has re-emerged as an important element in political life. The interests of these city-regions are bound up with a wide range of territorial strategies, including devolution processes and independence referendums,... Read more

1. Introduction: City-regions beyond Nation-states  2. New Regionalism Overview  3. Social Innovation Processes throughout Territorial Policies and Strategies  4. Deconstructing City-regions: the 5-System Framework as a Policy Tool  5. Benchmarking Eight City-region Case Studies  6. City-regions beyond Nation-states: National Identity and Economic Renewal  7. City-regional Policy Recommendation Decalogue from a Critical Social Innovation Perspective  8. Summary, Conclusions, Outlook

Biography

Igor Calzada is a PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the Future of Cities Programme, COMPAS at the University of Oxford (UK) and Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) for Orkestra – the Basque Institute of Competitiveness at the University of Deusto (Spain)

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