This paper explores claims the new regionalism opens the way to new and fruitful considerations of the relationship between economic and social policy at the regional level. It does so with particular reference to England’s Regional Development Agencies, who having been criticised for lacking...

It is exactly ten years since Allen Scott’s (2001a) edited collection ‘Global City-Regions - Trends, Theory, Policy’ became the antecedent to a resurgent interest among academic and policy communities in the ‘city-region’ concept. In the book, Scott and his fellow contributors...

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 amongst policy elites. The result has been a proliferation of actual and proposed policies and...

Over the past decade much has been written about the centrality of city-regions to accounts of economic success. But despite a rich and varied literature highlighting the importance of city-centric capitalism, the concept of the city-region remains ambiguous. Defined in economic terms, all too...

While explosive industrial growth in the nineteenth century placed Manchester as the manufacturing centre of the British Empire, and Liverpool as the distributive hub to the colonial trading world, both cities experienced remarkable socioeconomic decline in the post-war period resulting from...

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 though are the ‘actual mechanisms’ that connect...