Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure - Rilegato

Pike, Andy; Obrien, Peter; Strickland, Tom; Thrower, Graham; Tomaney, John

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ISBN 10: 1788118944 ISBN 13: 9781788118941

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2019

Riassunto

Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy.Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?’, this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.

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L'autore

Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University and John Tomaney, Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, UK

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1788118944
• ISBN 13: 9781788118941
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 343