The Fluctuating Record of Economic Regeneration in England's Second-Order City-Regions, 1984-2007

Tony Champion () and Alan Townsend ()
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Tony Champion: The Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
Alan Townsend: Department of Geography, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

Urban Studies, 2011, vol. 48, issue 8, 1539-1562

Abstract: Within the context of theoretical and policy debates about the new economic geography and an urban renaissance, this paper examines how far and in what way ‘Our cities are back', as claimed by England's Core Cities Group. It focuses on 1984-2007 employment changes for the eight Core Cities and their city-regions: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. These provincial city-regions are found to have suffered from the early 1990s recession relatively less than London, but then recovered more slowly. While they continued to gain jobs until 2007, their growth rate relative to the national average peaked in 1998-2002, which was also the only time that Core Cities themselves outpaced the rest of their city-regions.

Date: 2011
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