The Nation-State and Urban Governance

Sellers, Jefferey M.

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“…Here, peripheries are not passive recipients of damaging 'backward' and 'stagnant' types of representation, but play an active role in the discursive process. This leads to questions about 'peripheral' strategies of re-working or resisting dominant representations (Eriksson, 2008) and opens up possibilities for a multi-scale conception of centrality and peripherality (Hudson, 2005;McCann, 2004;Sellers, 2002aSellers, , 2002b.…”

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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Periods of ongoing growth in the economy and demographics have come to a halt for many European regions for various reasons, challenging their economic development prospects. Despite the heterogeneous nature of stagnation, decline, peripheralization or even stigmatization to be found there, these configurations 'beyond growth' have in common that short-term 'fire-fighting' policy approaches aiming to foster regional economic growth face some important limitations. We argue that this has to do, among other things, with the overall direction of established and orthodox planning approaches that are predominantly based on growth-oriented paradigms and implicitly or explicitly work with dichotomous categories such as core-periphery and metropolitan versus non-metropolitan spaces; these do, however, not capture local realities in these cases. Using the notion of non-core regions, we plead for conceptualizing non-core regions and their regional economic development trajectories in different ways: thinking 'beyond growth'. Such alternative ideas should be informed by alternative understandings of growth, development and sustainability in order to influence theories and concepts, but also to support new approaches to planning practice. To this aim, we discuss non-core regions from a social constructivist perspective, elaborating some points of departure for conceptualizing and practising regional planning 'beyond growth'.

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Section: Alternative Approaches To Development In Non-core Regionsmentioning

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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“…With this in mind, we can view the resulting (local) governance arrangements as the consequence of state actors working with other stakeholders to increase their political power (Peters and Pierre 2001;Davies and Trounstine 2012). Furthermore, because state actors in some jurisdictions are likely to have more capacity than their counterparts elsewhere (Sellers 2002), we can apply these principles in comparative analysis.…”

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Who shapes local climate policy? Unpicking governance arrangements in English and German cities

Eckersley

2017

Environmental Politics

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A new framework for analysing subnational policy-making is applied to climate governance in the 'twin towns' of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gelsenkirchen. Low levels of resource interdependence between central and local government in England mean that Newcastle Council has to rely heavily on other horizontal actors to achieve its climate objectives. In contrast, Gelsenkirchen Council receives substantial support from higher tiers of government, which gives it greater control over policymaking within the locality. Greater independence between tiers of government can make it more difficult for subnational bodies to adopt the kind of ambitious policies that may be necessary to combat wicked and/or significant policy challenges such as climate change. Instead, interdependent 'joint-decision' systems, which facilitate mutual support across tiers of government, may be better equipped to ensure that subnational public bodies have the capacity to act appropriately.

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“…For example, the comparative study by Sellers [38] reveals that the infrastructures of urban governance in Munster (a German city) and Madison (an American city) matter, pointing to the importance of conducting multilevel analysis in dealing with urban governance and indicating the significance of national infrastructures on urban governance. For another example, Wu's descriptions and discussions of Shanghai's trajectory of re-globalization portrayed Shanghai as an entrepreneurial city under the state's project, indicating the importance of institutional settings and contexts [47].…”

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Is Taipei an Innovative City? An Institutionalist Analysis

Wang

2007

East Asia

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This paper explores whether Taipei is an innovative city by critically examining Taipei's industrial and economic performance, developmental visions and spatial planning, as well as institutional settings and political contexts. With the aid of institutionalist perspective, the author argues that Taipei's innovative efforts are mostly policy innovation, rather than institutional innovation. The author also describes the institutional dynamics that have caused the lack of Taipei's institutional innovation. The case study of Taipei could be helpful in conducting comparative studies on urban innovation. PrefaceThrough an institutionalist analysis, this paper intends to investigate whether Taipei as a semi-peripheral world city is an innovative city by examining secondary data and by conducting a series of short interviews. This paper is based on two research motives. First, a number of studies of and debates revolving around world cities/global cities have demonstrated that an institutionalist analysis is indispensable in relevant case studies and comparative analyses. The paradigm of world cities/global cities has revealed the macro structure of the world city system embedded in and intertwined with the globalizing and incessantly evolutionary capitalist system [42], but it has been indicated that the contexts and embeddedness of the cities being studied are important, too [14,45,46]. This suggests that an institutionalist analysis is necessary to better understand the institutional dynamics of and structuring effects on various world cities because an institutionalist analysis is

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The Nation-State and Urban Governance

Cited by 74 publications

References 23 publications

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Who shapes local climate policy? Unpicking governance arrangements in English and German cities

Is Taipei an Innovative City? An Institutionalist Analysis

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