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Governing beyond the metropolis: Placing the rural in city-region development

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  • John Harrison

    (Loughborough University, UK)

  • Jesse Heley

    (Aberystwyth University, UK)

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Despite a select group of urban centres generating a disproportionate amount of global economic output, significant attention is being devoted to the impact of urban-economic processes on interstitial spaces lying between metropolitan areas. Nevertheless, there remains a noticeable silence in city-region debate concerning how rural spaces are conceptualised, governed and represented. In this paper we draw on recent city-region developments in England and Wales to suggest a paralysis of city-region policymaking has ensued from policy elites constantly swaying between a spatially-selective, city-first, agglomeration perspective on city-regionalism and a spatially-inclusive, region-first, scalar approach which fragments and divides territorial space along historical lines. In the final part we provide a typology of functionally dominant city-region constructs which we suggest offers a way out from the paralysis that currently grips city-region policymaking.

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  • John Harrison & Jesse Heley, 2015. "Governing beyond the metropolis: Placing the rural in city-region development," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(6), pages 1113-1133, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:6:p:1113-1133
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098014532853
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