IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/urbstu/v31y1994i10p1723-1738.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tales of the Suburbs: The Local Politics of Growth in the South-east of England

Author

Listed:
  • Julie Charlesworth

    (Faculty of social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK)

  • Allan Cochrane

    (Faculty of social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK)

Abstract

The operation of local politics in Britain is changing. With the help of three case studies, this paper explores some of the implications of these changes. One key aspect of change is the increased salience of 'network' and 'partnership' arrangements associated with the rise of local economic policy-making. The importance of this shift has been widely recognised in areas of economic decline or stagnation and in what are generally analysed as more or less free-standing localities. Here the focus is on change within the south-east of England, which has largely been defined in terms of 'growth', and in which regional and sub-regional linkages make it very difficult to identify 'localities': instead, the moves beyond suburbanisation, towards what some have labelled 'edge cities', highlight the importance of 'imaginary' geographies to the shaping and reshaping of local political processes. The local politics of growth help to construct an apparently cosy world of consensus which in practice serves to reinforce the power of some groups at the expense of others. '

Suggested Citation

  • Julie Charlesworth & Allan Cochrane, 1994. "Tales of the Suburbs: The Local Politics of Growth in the South-east of England," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 31(10), pages 1723-1738, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:31:y:1994:i:10:p:1723-1738
    DOI: 10.1080/00420989420081601
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/00420989420081601
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00420989420081601?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:31:y:1994:i:10:p:1723-1738. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudiesjournal .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.