Regionalism: The new geography of opportunity <i>San Antonio: Mirror of urban America</i>

Cisneros, Henry G.

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“…Overall, regional governance reform in the USA has involved less the wholesale introduction of a new layer of governance and partnerships at the regional level, and more the enhancement of levels of cooperation among existing local government agencies and public and private sector players. There, interagency and intergovernmental cooperation at the regional level is seen to be a means of maximising the global competitive performance of metropolitan economies (Cisneros, 1995a;1995b;Clarke and Gaile, 1998;Rusk, 1993;Savitch et al, 1993). However, the concrete links between this vision of`entrepreneurial regionalism' (compare Cisneros, 1995b) and environmental policy are not very clearöif anything, economic development and environmental action in the USA continue to be diametrically opposed political forces (compare Logan and Molotch, 1987;Pincetl, 1999).…”

Section: Functional Policy Pressures State Reform and Resultant Policmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Gibbs

Jonas

2001

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions will bring about an important change in UK regional governance. A key area of contention and struggle is likely to occur over the contribution of the RDAs to sustainable development. Although the pursuit of sustainable development is a stated goal of the RDAs, in this paper we argue that this goal is likely to be compromised by tensions and contradictions emerging in the evolving new governance landscape of England. In terms of promoting sustainable-development policy, the regional scale of the UK state is becoming materially and discursively significant, and a particular focus of struggles around economic and environmental issues. These struggles strategically intersect with wider processes of reregulation and rescaling in the UK state. We not only consider the practical policy implications of integrating the economy and environment at the regional scale, but also analyse emerging tensions in regional governance in the light of processes of social reregulation and rescaling within the UK state. We argue that theoretical approaches to the latter need to incorporate the uneven process of rescaling and the contingent nature of regional state forms and institutions.

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Section: Functional Policy Pressures State Reform and Resultant Policmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Gibbs

Jonas

2001

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…. urban America's toughest challenge" (Cisneros, 1995). During the last two presidential administrations, HUD has increased efforts to disperse recipients of subsidized housing in a variety of ways.…”

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“…In 1992, attorneys for Legal Aid and the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP filed suit against the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA), HUD, the city of Minneapolis, and the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities in the case of Hollman v. Cisneros (1995) alleging discrimination in the siting of public housing in the city. Consistent with HUD policy under Clinton, the agency sought to settle the suit out of court.…”

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“…In this respect the older suburbs are similar to central city neighborhoods that are concerned about having too much affordable housing. In fact, it is the growing sense of shared interests between central cities and first-ring suburbs that formed the basis of Representative Orfield's winning legislative coalition for his regional reforms (Orfield, 1997)-a coalition that has been called a model for other regions (Cisneros, 1995).…”

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The Politics of Poverty Deconcentration and Housing Demolition

Goetz

2000

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Concentrated poverty is the organizing framework for much housing policy at the federal and local levels. This article examines the effect of concentrated poverty on the politics of housing and community development at the local level. A case study of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area suggests that in high-poverty neighborhoods efforts to deconcentrate lead to political battles reminiscent of the urban renewal era in which poor and minority residents fight to save their housing and communities from slum clearance. For central cities, the deconcentration of poverty as a policy objective introduces a new set of criteria against which community development efforts are judged, making the development of subsidized and affordable housing more difficult to initiate or sustain. At the regional level, concerns about the concentration of poverty can create new alliances of resistance to affordable housing and even justify demolition in older, inner-ring suburbs.

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“…This is not to belittle or ignore theories of regions that have arisen in the contexts of transportation, environmental, or cultural studies. Rather, it emphasizes that the roots of the new regionalism lie primarily within the private sector or in public-private partnership efforts, despite continuing efforts to provide it with a normative foundation (see, e.g., Cisneros 1996;Swanstrom 1995). Moreover, it may be that the ability of advocates of regionalism to demonstrate that economic benefits arise from coherent metropolitan-wide efforts would grant them greater legitimacy than that provided by good-government arguments alone.…”

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The Role of Economic Theory in Regional Advocacy

Levine¹

2001

Journal of Planning Literature

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Regionalism is now being explored by a wide variety of communities. One of the most hotly debated assertions of the 1990s was that regional unity, however defined, leads to higher levels of economic growth. Yet despite this faith in the power of regionalism, the beneficial economic effects of regional planning remain elusive. This review presents and integrates three bodies of literature related to the proposed link between metropolitan unity, as expressed through planning, and economic outcomes.

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Regionalism: The new geography of opportunity San Antonio: Mirror of urban America

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Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

The Politics of Poverty Deconcentration and Housing Demolition

The Role of Economic Theory in Regional Advocacy

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