Benchmarking future city-regions

Calzada, Igor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-830X 2012. Benchmarking future city-regions. [Online]. Oxford: University of Oxford. Available at: http://www.cityregions.org

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Abstract

City-Regions are widely recognised as pivotal societal and political-economic formations, key to national and international competitiveness and re-balancing political restructuring processes into Nation-States. Nevertheless, a recent natural consequence of the economic recession has accelerated the way some City-Regions are highlighting some territorial devolution development strategies, while others remain steady, through the implementation of economically driven city-regionalism strategies. Despite the existence of more than 300 City-Regions (Scott, 2001), this project argues that there is not a single City-Region model as a whole. Moreover, this regionalisation process is being accelerated due to consequences of global flows of migration and commuters (Oresund), devolution of Nation-States, political sovereignty or even independence processes (Scotland, Catalonia, Basque Country, Liverpool and Manchester), internal democratic regeneration (Iceland) and socioeconomic transformation (Dublin and Portland), among other reasons. In order to understand and suitably intervene, there are requirements for analytical tools and frameworks, empirical evidence-based data and experimental policy-making government practices in the specific field of City-Regions. As a result, this project applies the multidisciplinary Critical Social Innovation (Moulaert, 2013) perspective in order to systematically analyse these territorial development strategies that occur in a diverse way, provoking multiple socio-spatial transformations and consequences.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government T Technology > T Technology (General)
Publisher:	University of Oxford
Funders:	Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science), RSA (Regional Studies Association)
Related URLs:	Project
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 March 2021
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139256

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