Rebalancing the Spatial Economy: The Challenge for Regional Theory
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Authors
Martin, Ronald
Publication Date
2015-07-01Journal Title
Territory, Politics, Governance
ISSN
2162-2671
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Volume
3
Pages
235-272
Language
English
Type
Article
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Martin, R. (2015). Rebalancing the Spatial Economy: The Challenge for Regional Theory. Territory, Politics, Governance, 3 235-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2015.1064825
Abstract
In response to the crisis of 2008 and deep recession that followed, the UK government assigned key importance to the need to ‘spatially rebalance’ the economy, to reduced its dependence on London and the South East by ‘powering up’ northern cities. This paper argues that the UK’s problem of spatial economic imbalance is in fact a long standing one, the very persistence of which raises key issues for our theories of regional development and policy. It argues that neither the new spatial economics, with its obsession with agglomeration, nor regional studies, with its plethora of concepts and paradigms but lack of integration and synthesis, offers a particularly convincing basis for devising policies capable of redressing the spatial imbalance in the UK’s economic landscape.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2015.1064825
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