Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc

Valler, David; Jonas, Andrew E. G.; Robinson, Laura

doi:10.1080/21622671.2020.1851751

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“…We apply our models to the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge "Arc" region of the United Kingdom (Valler, Jonas, and Robinson 2020) to demonstrate their utility. The Arc has been identified as an area for potential urban and economic development (National Infrastructure Commission 2017), and population change scenarios produced by SIMIM have already informed analysis of demand for 5G mobile phone infrastructure in the Arc (Oughton and Russell 2020).…”

Section: Results and Discussion: A Case Study Of The Arc Development ...mentioning

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An Open‐Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land‐Use Change

Lomax

Smith

Archer

et al. 2022

Geographical Analysis

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The size, composition, and spatial distribution of both people and households have a substantial impact on the demand for and development and delivery of infrastructure required to support the population. Infrastructure encompasses a wide range of domains including energy, transport, and water, each of which has its own set of spatial catchments at differing scales. Demographic projections are required to assess potential future demand; however, official projections are usually not provided at a high level of spatial resolution required for infrastructure planning. Furthermore, generating bespoke demographic projections, often incorporating a range of scenarios of possible future demographic change is a specialist, resource intensive job and as such is often missing from infrastructure development projects. In this paper we make the case that such demographic projections should be at the heart of infrastructure planning and present a set of open‐source models which can be used to undertake this demographic projection work, thus providing the tools needed to fill the identified gap. We make use of a case study for the United Kingdom to exemplify how a range of scenarios can be assessed using our model.

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Section: Results and Discussion: A Case Study Of The Arc Development ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Open‐Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land‐Use Change

Lomax

Smith

Archer

et al. 2022

Geographical Analysis

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“…Language is used and contested by different kinds of actors in constructing and naming specific spatial categories and discourses, the multifaceted 'problems' they represent, and whether (or not) they require responses (Beauregard, 1993;Tissot, 2018). Actors deploy interests, agency, and differential power in their formulation, articulation, and adaptation of discursive spatial labels and imaginaries through narratives, projects, strategies and tactics (MacKinnon, 2021;Metcalfe & Bern, 1994;Valler et al, 2021).…”

Section: Geographical Etymology and Spatial Imaginaries In Urban And ...mentioning

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‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology

Farrer¹,

Béal

Cauchi-Duval

et al. 2023

Regional Studies

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Left behind places' has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term's origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of 'left behind places'. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical inequalities are understood and addressed by recovering a more relational understanding of multiple 'left behind' conditions, widening the analytical frame beyond only economic concerns, and opening up interpretations of the 'development' of 'left behind places' and their predicaments and prospects. While renewing interest in fundamental urban and regional concerns, what needs to endure from the ascendance of the 'left behind places' label is the terminology and spatial imaginary of reducing geographical inequalities and enhancing social and spatial justice. KEYWORDS left behind places; geographical etymology; spatial imaginary; geographical inequalities; urban and regional studies; spatial justice JEL R11, R58 HISTORY

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“…To advance action around new spaces for nature, and thereby attract funding and gain some level of public recognition and acceptance, coalition-builders need to develop a repertoire of tools that go beyond institutional branding, creating new spatial imaginaries to reflect the essence of a new soft governance space. Examples like the Thames Gateway, the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, the Northern Way or the Northern Powerhouse all, in various ways and with varying success, attempted to embed new spatial imaginaries in the public and political mind (see Haughton and Allmendinger, 2015;Hincks et al, 2017;Valler et al, 2021). For environmental management and landscape planning, Table 2 provides examples from North West England, organized around broad categories of scale, to illustrate the diverse range of rationalities employed in creating new spatial imaginaries with a geo-environmental basis (these are discussed in more depth in the next section).…”

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Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

Tippett

Deas

Haughton

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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This article introduces the idea of hybrid rationalities as a complement to and extension of existing scholarship on hybrid governance and hybrid infrastructure. The research presented here also contributes to work on soft spaces and spatial imaginaries, which has mainly focused on planning and regeneration, by extending consideration to geo-environmental imaginaries and environmental soft spaces. A case study of the Mersey Belt region, which stretches between Manchester and Liverpool in England, reveals the ways in which multiple forms of new rationalities have been absorbed into the work of those looking to promote strategic environmental thinking that works at landscape scale, that is above the level of the individual site. In the process, multiple new geo-environmental spatial imaginaries have been created as part of the process of attracting funders and stakeholders. These new spatial imaginaries have been accompanied by experiments in creating new environmental soft spaces, supported by increasingly hybridized forms of governance in which the roles and rationalities of different stakeholders have to some extent blurred. In the process, actors have shaped, and shared distinctive understandings of how projects to support nature can be used to support wider goals such as addressing climate change, economic regeneration and social well-being.

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Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc

Cited by 13 publications

References 55 publications

An Open‐Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land‐Use Change

An Open‐Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land‐Use Change

‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology

Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

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