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The Political Construction of the City‐Region: Notes from Sydney

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City‐region theory — fuzzy as the boundaries of such a theory may be — centres on the claim that the territorial basis and organizational architecture of the global economy is now a mosaic of globally connected city‐regions rather than nations. Despite some intuitive appeal, there is a growing body of critique which targets specific frailties arising from the theoretical reliance in such arguments on a global capitalist‐logic and, relatedly, the focus on global exchange relations. In exploring the limits of these theoretical tendencies, this paper provides a critical account of the processual and practical formation of Sydney (NSW, Australia) as a city‐regional space of governance. It pays particular attention to the contingent emergence of Sydney’s metropolitan policy regionalism through political mediations of the particular and complex politics elicited by the spatial distributional consequences of city‐region development. Its concluding argument is that city‐region formation must be understood as an ongoing and multiscalar process without autonomy from the national political economy or from its territory.

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  • PAULINE McGUIRK, 2007. "The Political Construction of the City‐Region: Notes from Sydney," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(1), pages 179-187, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:31:y:2007:i:1:p:179-187
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00712.x
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    1. Fulong Wu, 2016. "China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(6), pages 1134-1151, November.
    2. Michael Buser, 2014. "Democratic Accountability and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of South Hampshire, UK," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(11), pages 2336-2353, August.
    3. John Allen, 2010. "Powerful City Networks: More than Connections, Less than Domination and Control," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(13), pages 2895-2911, November.
    4. Andrew E. G. Jonas & Andrew R. Goetz & Sutapa Bhattacharjee, 2014. "City-regionalism as a Politics of Collective Provision: Regional Transport Infrastructure in Denver, USA," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(11), pages 2444-2465, August.
    5. Michele Acuto, 2011. "Sydney: The Wicked Power-geometry of a Greening Global City," Chapters, in: Ben Derudder & Michael Hoyler & Peter J. Taylor & Frank Witlox (ed.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, chapter 50, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Tom O’Regan & Ben Goldsmith & Susan Ward, 2011. "Sydney’s Media Cluster: Continuity and Change in Film and Television," Chapters, in: Charlie Karlsson & Robert G. Picard (ed.), Media Clusters, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Ben Derudder & Michael Hoyler & Peter J. Taylor & Frank Witlox (ed.), 2011. "International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13622.
    8. Tom Baker & Kristian Ruming, 2015. "Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(1), pages 62-78, January.

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