An article examined the evolving pattern of city-regional governance in England. Following the demise of English regional policy in 2004, city-regions had come to represent the 'in vogue' spatial scale among policy elites. The result had been a proliferation of actual and proposed policies and institutions designed to operate at a, variously defined, city-regional scale in England. Nevertheless, attempts to build a city-regional tier of governance had been tentative and lacked coherence.
Source: John Harrison, 'Life after regions? The evolution of city-regionalism in England', Regional Studies, Volume 46 Number 9
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Date: 2012-Sep
An article used a case study of the south east of England to examine the development of sub-national territorial politics.
Source: Allan Cochrane, 'Making up a region: the rise and fall of the "south east of England" as a political territory', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Volume 30 Number 1
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Date: 2012-Jan
An article examined the implications of state territorial decentralization for the management of uneven regional development and spatial justice.
Source: Krisztina Varro, 'Reconsidering the English question as a matter of democratic politics and spatial justice', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Volume 30 Number 1
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Date: 2012-Jan