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In and beyond local government: making up new spaces of governance

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In the context of austerity, some of the taken for granted territorial boundaries of local government are being stretched and questioned. Here, these issues are explored with the help of two bodies of evidence: the creation of sets of interlocking arrangements on the edge of the London City region (most recently expressed in proposals for development along what has been identified as the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Arc); and the experience of a Mayoral development corporation in the West of London, seeking to take advantage of the possibilities arising from major national and metropolitan investments in transport infrastructure. In both cases, project-based governance coupled with the promise of infrastructural investment, sub-regional visions and plans offer the basis on which new spaces of governance are being put together to fit with shifting economic geographies and changing political priorities. Instead of being institutionally fixed, the spaces of government themselves turn out to be malleable and contested.

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  • Allan Cochrane, 2020. "In and beyond local government: making up new spaces of governance," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(4), pages 524-541, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:46:y:2020:i:4:p:524-541
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2019.1644321
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    2. Rodrigo Caimanque, 2023. "The life and death of the ‘Baron mall’: The shifting politics of urban regeneration in Valparaiso," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(5), pages 884-902, August.
    3. Slawomir Gawronski & Kinga Bajorek & Dariusz Tworzydlo & Anna Karwacka, 2021. "Communication Management within Community Relations by Local Governments in Poland," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 395-409.

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