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Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine

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Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Regional Studies. Local growth politics are increasingly conducted at scales that confound the assumptions of growth machine theory. This paper analyzes ‘competitive multi-city regionalism’ in the United States – local growth coalitions collaborating on economic development across multiple city-regions. It introduces the concept of ‘scalar logics of regionalism’ to characterize the multiple regionalism projects at work throughout the state–economy nexus, and develops a comparative case study of regionalism initiatives in Arizona, Florida and Ohio to demonstrate the importance of interactions and conflict between different scalar logics in determining the multi-scalar outcomes of local growth politics.

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  • David Wachsmuth, 2017. "Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(4), pages 643-653, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:51:y:2017:i:4:p:643-653
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1223840
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