Elite City-Deals For Economic Growth? Cardiff Capital Region, Devolution and the Positioning of Civil Society Actors

Beel, David (2018) Elite City-Deals For Economic Growth? Cardiff Capital Region, Devolution and the Positioning of Civil Society Actors. Space and Polity, 22 (3). pp. 307-327. ISSN 1470-1235

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Abstract

The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the ‘city region’ have seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One articulation of this has seen the creation of Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to potentially enhance Wales’s poor economic performance and secure democratic forms of social cohesion. City regions have been vaunted as the ‘spatial imaginary’ for engendering economic development, but there are considerable state spatial restructuring tensions. The paper discusses these by following the development of city-regionalism in Wales and specifically the unfolding of the ‘elite-led’ CCR City-Deal.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2018 14:49
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Additional Information:	Open access, copyright The Author.
Divisions:	Faculties > Science and Engineering
Subject terms:	1205 Urban and Regional Planning, 1604 Human Geography, Geography
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/622023
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2018.1532788
ISSN	1470-1235

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