Levelling up left behind places: the scale and nature of the economic and policy challenge

This book aims to understand the predicaments of ‘left behind places’ and the scale of the policy challenge of ‘levelling up’ their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades...

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Hauptverfasser: Martin, Ron 1948- (VerfasserIn), Gardiner, Ben (VerfasserIn), Pike, Andy 1968- (VerfasserIn), Sunley, Peter (VerfasserIn), Tyler, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon Routledge 2021
Schriftenreihe:Regional studies policy impact books
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Zusammenfassung:This book aims to understand the predicaments of ‘left behind places’ and the scale of the policy challenge of ‘levelling up’ their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades amidst deindustrialisation, post-industrial transition and the disruptive shocks of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Using the UK case to illustrate its arguments, the analysis identifies the different types of ‘left behind places’ and their distinctive economic experiences. The key features of urban and regional institutions and policies are reviewed to understand more about why, despite some successes, geographical inequalities remain an entrenched feature of the UK, blighting the life chances and quality of life of its citizens, and national economic progress as a whole. The weaknesses of past policies are highlighted, and the case is made for a new, mission-oriented policy model, because only a radical shift in economic thinking, governance and management is likely to achieve the ‘levelling up’ that is now a prominent refrain in the political lexicon
Beschreibung:iv, 135 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781032244303

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