The Rise of the Metropolitan City Region? Exploring the Establishment of New Levels of Local Government in England and France

Demazière, Christophe; Sykes, Olivier

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29073-3_9

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“…Whilst many of these efforts have highlighted functional urban areas that differ greatly from existing administrative boundary structures, in the UK there has been a general reluctance to engage in wide-ranging local government reorganisation to create more logical geographies (Demazière and Sykes, 2020). There have however, been experiments and reforms to regional governance, initially on a voluntary basis but more recently involving legislation, including the creation of GMCA in 2011.…”

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confidence: 99%

Detecting shifts in metropolitan structure: A spatial network perspective

Odell

Navarro-López

Pinto

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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The spatial distribution of metropolitan areas creates a complex system of competing and cooperating economic units. Understanding the size, scale and functional structure of such systems is an important topic in regional science. This paper uses commuter flow data over a 40 year period to analyse the changing structure of the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. We apply a combination of complex network analysis, residual network analysis and spatial network visualisation to detect Greater Manchester’s polycentric structure and identify intra-regional communities. This method is able to identify economic geographies in a highly complex and interdependent commuter network. We comment on the role of administrative boundaries in shaping metropolitan regions and discuss the potential of our work to inform debates on regional governance geographies and local government planning practices.

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Section: Regional Delineationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting shifts in metropolitan structure: A spatial network perspective

Odell

Navarro-López

Pinto

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…This was part of the UK government’s localism agenda to devolve power and functions to local institutions and communities in England (Evans et al, 2013). In France, there is a conviction that the territories are administered and developed according to local interests with a process of decentralisation that has strengthened local authorities with representatives having access to national decision making (Demazière and Sykes, 2020). Therefore, it is an integrationist model with vertical integration of state, regional and local offices (Kuhlmann and Wayenberg, 2016).…”

Section: England and France: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance and public policies: Support for women entrepreneurs in France and England?

Johnston

Danho

Yarrow

et al. 2022

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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We extend the current literature on barriers to women’s entrepreneurship by providing the perspectives of women entrepreneurs’ lived experience of governance and public policies designed to support entrepreneurship, in France and England. The research draws on primary data comprising interviews with 75 French and English women entrepreneurs as well as secondary data. The research suggests that in France the system of governance is relatively more supportive, whereas in England there are less favourable views of bureaucracy and the conditionality of financial policy instruments, which in turn create unintended outcomes. We extend current understandings of gendered public policies and governance. Points for practitioners The public policy and governance context in France offers relatively more support for women entrepreneurs than in England. There is a potential for policy learning in how to support women entrepreneurs. Financial policy instruments such as social welfare payments may affect women entrepreneurship. Bureaucracy creates time and opportunity costs for women entrepreneurs, which have a gendered impact if they are single parents and have dependents.

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“…Although the elected members of these structures are elected at the municipal level and not directly to the EPCIs, the latter must be considered a key (and a fourth) level of French territorial authority. Acknowledging the very small size of the core municipality, many mayors of large cities created an EPCI with their suburban colleagues and were able to launch very ambitious regeneration, public transport or cultural projects (Demazière and Sykes 2020).…”

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“…In rural areas, the population of an EPCI should now be at least 15 000 inhabitants, which has caused many mergers. In large cities, in response to the growing power of inter-municipal associations, a new category of EPCIs was created: the 'métropoles' (Demazière and Sykes 2020). This institutional reform was put forward by mayors of large cities who, in the case of France, used to be also members of the parliament and of national government for a long period.…”

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A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

Tedesco

2022

Urban Research & Practice

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Modern Guides offer a carefully curated review of a selected topic, edited or authored by a leading scholar in the field. They survey the significant trends and issues of contemporary research for both advanced students and academic researchers.The books provide an invaluable appraisal and stimulating guide to the current research landscape, offering state-of-the-art discussions and selective overviews covering the critical matters of interest alongside recent developments. Combining incisive insight with a rigorous and thoughtful perspective on the essential issues, the books are designed to offer an inspiring introduction and unique guide to the diversity of modern debates.Elgar Modern Guides will become an essential go-to companion for researchers and graduate students but will also prove stimulating for a wider academic audience interested in the subject matter. They will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand as well as simply learn.

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The Rise of the Metropolitan City Region? Exploring the Establishment of New Levels of Local Government in England and France

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Detecting shifts in metropolitan structure: A spatial network perspective

Detecting shifts in metropolitan structure: A spatial network perspective

Governance and public policies: Support for women entrepreneurs in France and England?

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe

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