From Competitive Regions to Competitive City-Regions.pdf (161.17 kB)
From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes
Under the titles of ‘global city-regions’ and the new ‘city regionalism’ there has been a
growing support for a resurgence of city-regions within economic geography. While
sympathetic to the general tenor of the new city-regionalism, this article argues for a
more synthetic approach to understanding the significance of the city-region. It is
argued that the same inherent weaknesses that undermined the previous new
regionalist orthodoxy within economic geography, have been collapsed into the present
focus upon the scale of the city-region. The article concludes by looking at the broader
implications of this for the future of economic geography
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
HARRISON, J., 2007. From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (3), pp. 311-332Publisher
© Oxford University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2007Notes
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [HARRISON, J., 2007. From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (3), pp. 311-332 ] is available online at: http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/311ISSN
1468-2702Language
- en