1st Edition

People, Places and Policy Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

Edited By Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane Copyright 2016
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy... Read more




    1 Introducing WISERD localities 2 Reframing the devolved policy landscape in Wales 3 Wales: a statistical perspective 4 The Heads of the Valleys 5 East, west and the bit in the middle: localities in north Wales 6 Locating the mid Wales economy 7 New localities in action and reaction

    Biography



    Martin Jones is Professor of Urban and Regional Political Economy, University of Sheffield, UK.



    Scott Orford is Reader in GIS and Spatial Analysis, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Wales.



    Victoria Macfarlane is Director of Operations at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), Cardiff University, Wales.