H<sc>arrison</sc> J. Life after regions? The evolution of city-regionalism in England, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper examines the evolving pattern of city-regional governance in England. Following the demise of English regional policy in 2004, city-regions have come to represent the in vogue spatial scale...

H<sc>arrison</sc> J. Configuring the new 'regional world': on being caught between territory and networks, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Recent years have witnessed a tremendous appeal in debating the relative decline in 'territorially embedded' conceptions of regions vis-à-vis the privileging of 'relational and...

Going beyond the territorial/relational divide in regional studies requires researchers to do more than examine the extent to which territoriality and relationality are complementary alternatives. The variety of networked regional spaces means it is intellectually unsustainable to simply relate...

Under the banner of the new regionalism, the past decade has witnessed a revival of academic and political interest in the region as a strategic site for economic activity and scale for socially integrating civil society. What remains unclear, however, are the 'actual mechanisms' that connect...

This paper reports a preliminary investigation into the economic efficacy of two spatial frameworks—English Core Cities and the Northern Way—recently promoted by national policy makers. We ask whether they are consistent with contemporary economic process in the UK space economy through...

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.