IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/regstd/v42y2008i8p1161-1172.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Examining 'Core-Periphery' Relationships in a Global City-Region: The Case of London and South East England

Author

Listed:
  • Kathy Pain

Abstract

Pain K. Examining 'core-periphery' relationships in a global city-region: the case of London and South East England, Regional Studies. This paper examines the interdependencies between the London 'core' and the South East England 'Mega-City Region'. London's description as a monocentric city in the European Spatial Development Perspective belies functional connectivities that make a wide area to the west of the capital a web of dense inter-urban linkages. How are advanced business services creating a functional geography that differs from binary territorial representations? What are the implications for policy and theorization? This paper addresses these questions with specific reference to South East England and the 'core-periphery' thesis. [image omitted] Pain K. Examiner le rapport 'centre-peripherie' dans une cite-region mondiale: etude de cas de Londres et de l'Angleterre du Sud-Est, Regional Studies. Cet article cherche a examiner les interdependances entre le 'centre', a savoir Londres, et la mega-cite-region' de l'Angleterre du Sud-Est. Dans le European Spatial Development Perspective (perspective sur le developpement geographique europeen) la description de Londres comme ville mono-centrique dissimule les connectivites fonctionnelles qui font d'une grande zone a l'ouest de la capitale un grand reseau de liens interurbains. Comment les services aux entreprises haut de gamme peuvent-ils creer une geographie fonctionnelle qui se distingue des representations territoriales binaires? Quelles sont les implications quant a la politique et a la theorisation? Cet article cherche a aborder ces questions-la specifiquement en ce qui concerne l'Angleterre du Sud-Est et la these 'centre-peripherie'. Mega-cite-region Polycentrisme-monocentrisme Centre-peripherie Services aux entreprises haut de gamme Binaire Specialisation fonctionnelle Pain K. Untersuchung der 'Kern-Peripherie'-Beziehungen in einer globalen Stadtregion: der Fall von London und Sudostengland, Regional Studies. In diesem Beitrag werden die Interdependenzen zwischen dem 'Kern' London und der 'Megastadtregion' Sudostengland untersucht. Aus der europaischen Raumentwicklungsperspektive wird London als monozentrische Stadt beschrieben, wobei aber die funktionalen Verknupfungen ignoriert werden, die ein grosses Gebiet westlich der Hauptstadt in ein Netz enger interurbaner Verknupfungen verwandeln. Wie schaffen gehobene Wirtschaftsdienstleistungen eine funktionale Geografie, die sich von den binaren territorialen Reprasentationen unterscheidet? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf Politik und Theoretisierung? Diese Fragen werden in diesem Aufsatz unter besonderer Berucksichtigung von Sudostengland und der 'Kern-Peripherie'-These behandelt. Megastadtregion Polyzentrizitat-Monozentrizitat Kern-Peripherie Wirtschaftsdienstleistungen Binar Funktionale Spezialisierung Pain K. Analisis de las relaciones 'centro-periferia' en una region-ciudad global: el caso de Londres y el sureste de Inglaterra, Regional Studies. En este articulo examino las interdependencias entre el 'nucleo' de Londres y la 'region mega-ciudad' al sureste de Inglaterra. En la descripcion de Londres como ciudad monocentrica en la Perspectiva de Desarrollo Espacial Europeo se ignoran las conectividades funcionales que convierten una amplia zona hacia el oeste de la capital en una red de densos enlaces interurbanos. ¿Como crean los servicios comerciales avanzados una geografia funcional que difiere de las representaciones territoriales binarias? ¿Cuales son las repercusiones en la politica y la teorizacion? En este articulo abordo estas cuestiones con referencia especifica al sureste de Inglaterra y la tesis de 'centro-periferia'. Region mega-ciudad Policentralidad-monocentralidad Centro-periferia Servicios avanzados de productores Binario Especializacion funcional

Suggested Citation

  • Kathy Pain, 2008. "Examining 'Core-Periphery' Relationships in a Global City-Region: The Case of London and South East England," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(8), pages 1161-1172.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:42:y:2008:i:8:p:1161-1172
    DOI: 10.1080/00343400701808857
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343400701808857
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00343400701808857?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Scott, Allen J. (ed.), 2001. "Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198297994.
    2. Ron A. Boschma & Koen Frenken, 2006. "Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 273-302, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Peter J. Taylor & David M. Evans & Michael Hoyler & Ben Derudder & Kathy Pain, 2009. "The UK Space Economy as Practised by Advanced Producer Service Firms: Identifying Two Distinctive Polycentric City‐Regional Processes in Contemporary Britain," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 700-718, September.
    2. Yihan Wang & Ekaterina Turkina, 2020. "Economic Complexity and Industrial Upgrading in the Product Space Network - Opportunities for the City of Laval, Canada," Post-Print hal-03206772, HAL.
    3. Martijn J. Burger & Evert J. Meijers & Frank G. Oort, 2014. "Multiple Perspectives on Functional Coherence: Heterogeneity and Multiplexity in the Randstad," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 105(4), pages 444-464, September.
    4. Karen Lai, 2012. "Differentiated Markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China’s Financial Centre Network," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(6), pages 1275-1296, May.
    5. Bo Liu & Desheng Xue & Yiming Tan, 2019. "Deciphering the Manufacturing Production Space in Global City-Regions of Developing Countries—a Case of Pearl River Delta, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-26, December.
    6. Alain Thierstein & Stefan Lüthi, 2012. "Interlocking Firm Networks in the German Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich," Chapters, in: Marina van Geenhuizen & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), Creative Knowledge Cities, chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Xingjian Liu & Ben Derudder & Yaolin Liu & Frank Witlox & Wei Shen, 2013. "A Stochastic Actor-Based Modelling of the Evolution of an Intercity Corporate Network," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(4), pages 947-966, April.
    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.
    9. Kathy Pain, 2011. "Spatial Transformations of Cities: Global City-region? Mega-city Region?," Chapters, in: Ben Derudder & Michael Hoyler & Peter J. Taylor & Frank Witlox (ed.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    10. Hananel, Ravit & Azary-Viesel, Sagit & Nachmany, Harel, 2021. "Spatial gaps – Narrowing or widening? Changes in spatial dynamics in the new millennium," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    11. Nir Kaplan & Itzhak Omer, 2022. "Multiscale Accessibility—A New Perspective of Space Structuration," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-19, April.
    12. Carlos Bueno-Suárez & Daniel Coq-Huelva, 2020. "Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-36, May.
    13. Kathy Pain & Gilles Van Hamme & Sandra Vinciguerra & Quentin David, 2016. "Global networks, cities and economic performance: Observations from an analysis of cities in Europe and the USA," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(6), pages 1137-1161, May.
    14. Reades, Jonathan & Smith, Duncan, 2014. "Mapping the ‘space of flows’: the geography of global business telecommunications and employment specialization in the London mega-city-region," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 55812, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    15. Canfei He & Xiyan Mao, 2016. "Population dynamics and regional development in China," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 9(3), pages 535-549.
    16. Jincheng Yang & Xinqu Xia & Mu Zhang, 2021. "A Study on Economic Spatial Structure of Urban Agglomerations in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(10), pages 1-63, July.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Henry Wai-chung, 2023. "From Regional to Global and Back Again? A Future Agenda for Regional Evolution and (De)Globalized Production Networks in Regional Studies," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 2312, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised May 2023.
    2. Constance Carr & Markus Hesse, 2020. "When Alphabet Inc. Plans Toronto’s Waterfront: New Post-Political Modes of Urban Governance," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(1), pages 69-83.
    3. Mace, Alan & Holman, Nancy & Paccoud, Antoine & Sundaresan, Jayaraj, 2015. "Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 56768, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Erik Stam, 2010. "Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography," Chapters, in: Ron Boschma & Ron Martin (ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, chapter 6, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Rehák Štefan & Hudec Oto & Buček Milan, 2013. "Path dependency and path plasticity in emerging industries: Two cases from Slovakia," ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, De Gruyter, vol. 57(1-2), pages 52-66, October.
    6. Wang, Liang & Tan, Justin & Li, Wan, 2018. "The impacts of spatial positioning on regional new venture creation and firm mortality over the industry life cycle," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 41-52.
    7. Anna Herzog, 2022. "Imaginaries, directionalities, agency and new path creation [Imaginaries, directionalities, Akteurshandeln und Pfadkreation]," Review of Regional Research: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, Springer;Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung (GfR), vol. 42(3), pages 279-307, December.
    8. Cristina Chaminade & Monica Plechero, 2015. "Do Regions Make a Difference? Regional Innovation Systems and Global Innovation Networks in the ICT Industry," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(2), pages 215-237, February.
    9. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Riccardo Crescenzi, 2008. "Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 1(3), pages 371-388.
    10. Kim, Jinhee & Lee, Keun, 2022. "Local–global interface as a key factor in the catching up of regional innovation systems: Fast versus slow catching up among Taipei, Shenzhen, and Penang in Asia," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    11. Joao Carlos Lopes & Amélia Branco, 2013. "The Clustering of Cork Firms in Santa Maria da Feira: Why History Matters," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 3(1), pages 354-354.
    12. Lesley Welman & Sanette LA Ferreira, 2016. "The co-evolution of Saldanha Bay (town and hinterland) and its Port," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 31(1-2), pages 219-233, February.
    13. Jennifer Robinson, 2011. "Cities in a World of Cities: The Comparative Gesture," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 1-23, January.
    14. Bo Liu & Desheng Xue & Yiming Tan, 2019. "Deciphering the Manufacturing Production Space in Global City-Regions of Developing Countries—a Case of Pearl River Delta, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-26, December.
    15. Rik Wenting & Koen Frenken, 2011. "Firm entry and institutional lock-in: an organizational ecology analysis of the global fashion design industry," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 20(4), pages 1031-1048, August.
    16. Rafael Morais Pereira & Ana Cláudia Azevedo & Fabio Emanuel Farago & Felipe Mendes Borini, 2024. "Technological intensity and local socio‐economic development," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(2), pages 1043-1057, March.
    17. Alain Thierstein & Stefan Lüthi, 2012. "Interlocking Firm Networks in the German Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich," Chapters, in: Marina van Geenhuizen & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), Creative Knowledge Cities, chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    18. Ron Boschma, 2021. "Designing Smart Specialization Policy: relatedness, unrelatedness, or what?," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 2128, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Sep 2021.
    19. John Parr, 2015. "The city and the region as contrasts in spatial organization," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 54(3), pages 797-817, May.
    20. HaeRan Shin & Quentin Stevens, 2013. "How Culture and Economy Meet in South Korea: The Politics of Cultural Economy in Culture-led Urban Regeneration," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(5), pages 1707-1723, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:42:y:2008:i:8:p:1161-1172. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CRES20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.