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The aim of this edited volume is to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by different forms of territorial policy and governance. Drawing on conceptual debates and empirical research from the UK and other international contexts, the contributors engage with issues around the politics and governance of territorial development,
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Iain Deas and Stephen Hincks
Part I
Multi-scalar concepts and practices of regionalism
2 New localism, new localities ...
Martin Jones
3 Evolving conceptions of regional policy in Europe and their influence across different territorial scales
Philip O'Brien, Olivier Sykes and David Shaw
4 Constructing alternative paths to city-region policy and governance
John Harrison
Part II
Flexible regionalism: soft spaces in theory and practice
5 Alternative planning spaces
Graham Haughton and Philip Allmendinger
6 Multi-level geographies of trans-boundary cooperation in Catalonia: governance, planning and 'cross-border spaces of regionalist engagement'
Claire Colomb Francesc Morata Tierra, Antoni Dura Guimera and Xavier Oliveras Gonzalez
Part III
Mobility and circularity in urban-regional policy
7 Business improvement districts in the United Kingdom: territorialising a 'global' model?
Kevin Ward and Ian Cook
8 'Where it's at': fashions and fads in British local economic-development policy
Alex Lord
Part IV
Embedding environmental concerns in regional governance and policy
9 From ecotopia to heterotopia: alternative pathways to territorialising the environment
Andrew Karvonen
10 The implications of the low-carbon economy for the politics and practice of regional development
David Gibbs, Andrew E.G. Jonas and Aidan While
11 The production and consumption of urban-climatology science in New York City's PlaNYC
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About the author
Iain Deas is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Manchester, UK.
Stephen Hincks is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Manchester, UK.
Summary
The aim of this edited volume is to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by different forms of territorial policy and governance. Drawing on conceptual debates and empirical research from the UK and other international contexts, the contributors engage with issues around the politics and governance of territorial development,
