Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Pike, Andy; O?brien, Peter; Strickland, Tom; Thrower, Graham; Tomaney, John
ISBN 10: 1800373848 ISBN 13: 9781800373846
Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020
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Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy.
Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.
About the Author: Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien and Tom Strickland, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, Graham Thrower, Head of the Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion, University of Sunderland and John Tomaney, Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, UK
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Title: Financialising City Statecraft and ...
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New