 City‐Regions and Social Reproduction: A ‘Place’ for Sustainable Development?Rob Krueger and Lydia Savage International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2007, vol. 31, issue 1, 215-223 Abstract: Recent studies have suggested a city‐region’s competitiveness is based not only on production, but social reproduction. These issues as well as the policy measures adopted by many city‐regions are frequently couched in a discourse of ‘sustainable development’. But as an analytical framework how well does the concept of sustainable development account for the dynamics of social reproduction and the sustainability of a city‐region? This article examines the possible relationship between city‐regions and sustainable development at a conceptual level. We argue that despite some excellent work on the concept of ‘just sustainability’, current constructions of sustainable development are inadequate to capture the broad array of social and economic issues found in the city‐region. As a way forward we initiate a discussion between the sustainability literature and labor geography, and provide a case study of a hospital privatization process in Boston, USA, which has been framed by a politics of city‐regionalism. Date: 2007 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:31:y:2007:i:1:p:215-223 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is currently edited by Alan Harding, Roger Keil and Jeremy Seekings More articles in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research from Wiley Blackwell |
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