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Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics

Phelps, Nicholas A., Parsons, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-8722, Ballas, Dimitris and Dowling, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-4687 2006. Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 (2) , pp. 362-383. 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00663.x

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Abstract

The issue of the organization, role and influence of business interests in urban politics at the edge of major cities is one that is overdue for investigation. This article provides an initial and empirically oriented investigation of the organization, role and influence of business interests in edge urban politics in Europe. We present findings from five members of a European network of self-styled ‘edge cities’. Following the now extensive debate in academic literature regarding the applicability of US concepts such as growth machines and urban regimes to the European setting, we draw attention to a diversity of business involvement in urban politics at the edge of Europe’s capital cities. This diversity does include instances that, despite the very different ‘macro-necessities’ structuring edge urban politics in Europe, approximate to these concepts. Moreover, the diversity apparent in edge urban business politics raises several important questions for future research on urban governance. Namely, the complex connection between the local dependence of business and the organization of its interests; the ‘jumping of scales’ by locally dependent edge urban actors, and the sometimes neglected articulation of business interests with party political organization.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Modern Languages
Subjects: J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISSN: 1468-2427
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2022 09:34
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3590

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