Elite city-deals for economic growth? Problematizing the complexities of devolution, city-region building, and the (re)positioning of civil society

Beel, David, Jones, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-9134 and Jones, Ian Rees ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-9134 2018. Elite city-deals for economic growth? Problematizing the complexities of devolution, city-region building, and the (re)positioning of civil society. Space and Polity 22 (3) , pp. 307-327.

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Abstract

The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the ‘city region’ have seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One articulation of this has seen the creation of Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to potentially enhance Wales’s poor economic performance and secure democratic forms of social cohesion. City regions have been vaunted as the ‘spatial imaginary’ for engendering economic development, but there are considerable state spatial restructuring tensions. The paper discusses these by following the development of city-regionalism in Wales and specifically the unfolding of the ‘elite-led’ CCR City-Deal.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1356-2576
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 October 2018
Date of Acceptance:	24 September 2018
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 13:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116120

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