Implications of Metropolitan Policy Mobility: Tracing the Relevance of Travelling Ideas for Metropolitan Regions

Fricke, Carola

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“…Despite this reconfiguration, processes of restructuring have to some extent seen ongoing reiterations of the same problem. Recognition of a need to more explicitly link spaces of governance with the location and distribution of industry has not stymied tendencies towards generic and plagiarised policy and intervention (Harrison 2010a;Fricke 2020). Thus, issues of the singularity of bounded models (Agnew 2013) are only partially addressed, whilst presumed autonomy applied through the LEP/FEA approach introduced in 2010 is framed within an overriding process of topdown governance (Bailey and Wood 2017).…”

Section: Local Economic Governance: An Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both governance arrangements and related network types create an a priori version of local economy through intervention design and its distribution of activities (Skelcher 2017;Blackmond Larnell 2018). Despite notable reorganisation in governance arrangements, the extent to which these represent the distinctive needs of different local areas remains an open question (Coombes 2014;Harrison and Heley 2015;Fricke 2020).…”

Section: Local Economic Governance: An Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The challenge here for local government in the governance of local economy is significant. Despite an ongoing period during which the role of the local state has been eroded (McCann 2016), growing levels of dissatisfaction with progress in addressing enduring issues of uneven economic development illustrate ongoing failures of tested modes of governance and their spatial and policy selectivity (Martin and Sunley 2011;Harrison and Heley 2015;Fricke 2020). The selected study area illustrates potential for reconfiguring LEUs as a result of critical analysis and structural engagement, moving from spaces formed via a place-first to an industry-first approach.…”

Section: Redrawing Local Economy In a Networked Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

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Defining local economies beyond their boundaries

Salder

2021

Local Government Studies

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Local economy is conventionally defined through political administrative units. The continuity of this approach has been challenged as more networked forms of economy have evolved. In response, local economies are increasingly reconfigured around city-regions, on presumption of linking network potential with local dynamics. Such challenges present several problems for practitioners in local economic governance. This paper examines the continuity between cityregional articulations of local economy units (LEU) and localised dynamics. Using lower-tier localities in Staffordshire, UK, reconfigured into the Greater Birmingham & Solihull city-region, it uses a location quotient to examine industrial concentration as a determinant of related variety. It extrapolates these concentrations to define LEUs and examine their continuity with formal political designation. It argues growing dependence on the city-region is a partial representation which ignores industry-based approaches and the need for plurality in defining local economies. Adopting such approaches may be of value to local government policy practitioners.

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Section: Local Economic Governance: An Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Local Economic Governance: An Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Redrawing Local Economy In a Networked Eramentioning

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Defining local economies beyond their boundaries

Salder

2021

Local Government Studies

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“…Alongside this has emerged a growing school of literature outlining the limitations of the city-region as an a priori model of spatial economy. Focus upon the city element of the city-region has come at the expense of both broader understandings of city-regional dynamics (Fricke, 2020; McCann and Ortega-Argiles, 2015) and more focused analysis of peripheral or outlying spaces (Harrison and Heley, 2015; Salder and Bryson, 2019). Presumptions of the network-based capabilities of cities have similarly situated broader dependencies on aggregated notions of resource inputs without due analysis of critical determinants in the shape of firms (Plank and Staritz, 2015).…”

Section: City-region Peripheries Firm Embeddedness and The Networked Turnmentioning

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“…At its most extreme, this has seen a redrawn map of regional geographies with administrative units adapted through the privileging of city-regions (Harrison, 2010) and constituent areas reframed to conform with such dynamics (Salder, 2020; Waite and Morgan, 2019). More broadly, integration of city-regionalism as a mode of practice represents both a continued experimentation in policy responses (Moisio and Jonas, 2018) and an enduring dependence on tested approaches via forms of policy mobility (Fricke, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The networked economy of firms in city-region peripheries

Salder

2020

European Urban and Regional Studies

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City-regions have become a core unit of analysis for spatial economy, providing an explicit link between bounded administrative units and more networked spaces of production. Too often, however, such analysis is focused on the core of the city-region, applying presumptions of gravity-based agglomeration. This paper examines these networked spaces of production from the city-region periphery, using a firm-based approach as critical determinants of spatial economy via their key interactions. Focused on the Greater Birmingham city-region, UK, the paper explores the integration of city-regional geography with firm-based networked economy. In doing so, it applies a set of networks of practice, focused on firms’ factored, transactional, and transitional dependencies. Using these networks of practice, it critically analyses the spaces of production formed through firm-based interactions, and their concomitance with city-regional designations. It makes two key contributions. First, it enhances the call for greater understanding of the relationship between core and periphery in the context of city-regions. Second, it argues that network-based approaches, which form spatial economy around firm interactions over administrative configurations, offer useful insight into understanding firm–place relationships which more conventional place-based approaches cannot.

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From Here to There: Mapping the Metropolitan Politics of Policy Mobilities

Zimmermann

2019

Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance

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Implications of Metropolitan Policy Mobility: Tracing the Relevance of Travelling Ideas for Metropolitan Regions

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Defining local economies beyond their boundaries

Defining local economies beyond their boundaries

The networked economy of firms in city-region peripheries

From Here to There: Mapping the Metropolitan Politics of Policy Mobilities

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