Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower and John Tomaney

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Abstract: Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 9781788118941
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? , pp 1-30

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Ch 2 Financialising city infrastructure and governance , pp 31-77

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Ch 3 Towards city statecraft , pp 78-102

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Ch 4 City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state , pp 103-163

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Ch 5 Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals , pp 164-196

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Ch 6 Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning and acquiring city infrastructure assets , pp 197-230

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Ch 7 Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? , pp 231-268

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Ch 8 Conclusions , pp 269-290

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