Balancing London? A Preliminary Investigation of the “Core Cities” and “Northern Way” Spatial Policy Initiatives Using Multi-City Corporate and Commercial Law Firms

Taylor, Peter J.; Hoyler, Michael; Evans, David M.; Harrison, John

doi:10.1080/09654311003791325

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“…In Taylor's application, APS represent the 'new net-work', critical for economic expansion (Taylor 2007a). This is also explained by an analogy with ecology: a quantitatively unimportant species (like APS firms) may be an 'indicator species' by reflecting the health of an ecosystem and therefore become more interesting than the dominant species (that is large TNCs) (analogy used in Rossi et al 2007;Taylor 2006;Taylor et al 2007).…”

Section: World City Network -With Invisible Linkagesmentioning

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Global Cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance

Parnreiter¹

2010

Commodity Chains and World Cities

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Section: World City Network -With Invisible Linkagesmentioning

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Global Cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance

Parnreiter¹

2010

Commodity Chains and World Cities

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“…In fact, it is not the distinctive industrial regions (Lancashire cotton textile region, West Yorkshire woollen textile region, etc.) that are the current focus but the combination of their major cities as a ‘Northern Way’ for balancing the economic power of London (Taylor et al. , 2007).…”

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The UK Space Economy as Practised by Advanced Producer Service Firms: Identifying Two Distinctive Polycentric City‐Regional Processes in Contemporary Britain

Taylor

Evans

Hoyler

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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Cities and city-regions are back on the research agenda in the UK. Taking the world city literature as guide, this paper uses advanced producer service firms to study contemporary inter-city relations in the UK space economy. We employ an interlocking network model, initally developed for global scale analysis, to assess signs that recent globalization is effecting a revival outside the London region, and to identify leading urban areas in the UK national economy. Two different analyses are presented: a connectivity analysis that indicates how well cities and towns are linked into the UK space economy, and a fuzzy clustering analysis that classifies the cities and towns to search out hierarchical and regional tendencies.From these findings, we identify two distinctive polycentric city-regional processes in contemporary Britain: a Jacobs-style polycentric mega-city regional process out of London that creates new important service centres and reaches selected smaller cities and towns; and a polycentric multi-city regional process beyond London that mainly enhances the service capacities of selected larger cities. A concluding section considers the implications of the two processes for spatial planning in the UK.2

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“…networks of knowledge, information, capital flows). Evident in accounts that show how large urban regions are comprised of polycentric structures (Hall and Pain, 2006;Hoyler et al, 2008b) economic function becomes the key determinant in identifying emergent, newly dominant and formerly dominant metropolitan spaces (Taylor et al, 2009(Taylor et al, , 2010(Taylor et al, , 2013. What often emerges is the identification of spaces that may function as a major urban region but that do not appear as such in the physical landscape or, for that matter, map onto politico-administrative territorial units.…”

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Governing the new metropolis

Harrison

Hoyler

2014

Urban Studies

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The expansion of globalising cities into global city-regions poses fundamental questions about how best to govern the new metropolis. Partly because of the relentless pace of change, these newly emerging metropolitan spaces are often reliant on inadequate urban-economic infrastructure and fragmented urban-regional planning and governance arrangements. Moreover, as the demand for more 'appropriate', widely understood to mean more flexible, networked and smart, forms of planning and governance increases, new expressions of territorial cooperation and conflict are emerging around issues of increased competitiveness, infrastructure development, the collective provision of services, and further governmentalised remapping(s) of state space. We identify four central tenets of the metropolitan region/governance debate and discuss their relevance for future research on city-regions: (1) periodisation and trajectories, (2) democracy and accountability, (3) form and function, and (4) fragility and mobilisation. These, we argue, pose key challenges for rethinking city-region governance within the emerging new metropolitan paradigm.

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Balancing London? A Preliminary Investigation of the “Core Cities” and “Northern Way” Spatial Policy Initiatives Using Multi-City Corporate and Commercial Law Firms

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Global Cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance

Global Cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance

The UK Space Economy as Practised by Advanced Producer Service Firms: Identifying Two Distinctive Polycentric City‐Regional Processes in Contemporary Britain

Governing the new metropolis

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