Ties that Bind: Central Cities, Suburbs, and the New Metropolitan Region

Savitch, H. V.; Collins, DJ; Sanders, Daniel S.; Markham, John P.

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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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“…First, at the most disaggregated level (the central city-surrounding areas relationship), the suburban dependence hypothesis argues that central cities and their suburbs are inextricably intertwined, and that healthy cities foster faster growing suburbs. Thus, there exists a positive externality from the central cities to their suburbs [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. However, a local input-output model is applied to find that the backwash effect is stronger than the spread effect in the case of the Washington economy [25].…”

Section: Review Of the Central-suburban Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Merits of the Urban-Led Policy in China: Spread or Backwash Effect?

Chiang

2018

Sustainability

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Shanghai and Beijing, as two megacities, are often regarded as the most successful examples of China's growth pole policy, which has stirred up a great deal of controversy behind the spread-backwash effects. It is believed that the spread-backwash effects for these two mega metropolitan regions are particularly valuable when evaluating the merits of adopting an "urban-led" policy in China. Moreover, a great deal of effort has been devoted to the cross-section analysis of relevant data. What seems to be lacking, however, is a time-series econometric method. The estimation results using real gross regional product (GRP) over the last 50 years reveal that a long-run equilibrium exists for these central cities and their suburbs. More noteworthy is the finding that spread and backwash effects coexist in these two metropolitan regions, namely, the central city has spread and backwash effects on its medium-level and low-level suburbs, respectively. Thus, how to diminish the city-suburb gap is our concern and this argument is consistent with the spirit of new-type urbanization policy in China now to create a balanced and equalized metropolitan economy.

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“…The linkages between the two entities continue to strengthen as a greater percentage of holders of central city jobs reside in the suburbs. Savitch et al (1993) show for a selected sample of 10 metropolitan areas that suburbanites claimed a rising share of an expanding central city economy.…”

Section: Metropolitan Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Labor Markets

Bartik

Eberts

1994

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Urban Labor MarketsRandall W. Eberts Abstract Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and workers advantages that lead to more efficient markets, enhanced productivity, and greater economic success. Nevertheless, the nation's city, while generating a large proportion of the nation's wealth, houses much of the nation's economic disadvantaged workers. This paper describes the current conditions of urban labor markets and outlines a national urban policy agenda that addresses these concerns by taking into account cities' spatial dimension. The paper argues that a national urban labor policy should emphasize the effects of physical and informational proximity on growth, the benefits of efficient urban markets, and the importance of the access of workers to urban labor markers. These characteristics distinguish a national urban policy from simply a national policy targeted at people who happen to live in cities.

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Ties that Bind: Central Cities, Suburbs, and the New Metropolitan Region

Cited by 139 publications

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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

Assessing the Merits of the Urban-Led Policy in China: Spread or Backwash Effect?

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