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Cochrane, Allan
(2019).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2019.1644321
Abstract
In the context of austerity, some of the taken for granted territorial boundaries of local government are being stretched and questioned. Here, these issues are explored with the help of two bodies of evidence: the creation of sets of interlocking arrangements on the edge of the London City region (most recently expressed in proposals for development along what has been identified as the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Arc); and the experience of a Mayoral development corporation in the West of London, seeking to take advantage of the possibilities arising from major national and metropolitan investments in transport infrastructure. In both cases, project-based governance coupled with the promise of infrastructural investment, sub-regional visions and plans offer the basis on which new spaces of governance are being put together to fit with shifting economic geographies and changing political priorities. Instead of being institutionally fixed, the spaces of government themselves turn out to be malleable and contested.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Tensions and future prospects for sustainable housing growth in Central England. A case study of Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes (D-10-064-AC) ES/I038632/1 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Governing a suburban growth region: living on the edge of the Greater South East EM-2014-086 LEVERHULME The Leverhulme Trust - Keywords
- Austerity; projects; visions and plans; spaces of governance; infrastructure; spatialised politics
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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- OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
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- Allan Cochrane