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City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling

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  • Simin Davoudi
  • Elizabeth Brooks

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This paper proposes a new conceptualization of scale as performative imaginary and deploys that to explore the what, the why and the how questions of scalar fixing. Drawing on city-regionalization in England, it argues that a distinct imaginary of city-regions as economic- and city-centric spaces has been normalized through two forms of knowledge: one rationalizing the scalar positioning of this imaginary, the other demarcating its spatial boundaries. It shows that despite the alignment between enacted scale (what), scalar imaginary (how) and neoliberal political project (why), institutionalization of this imaginary has failed, leading to variable geometries of subnational governance.

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  • Simin Davoudi & Elizabeth Brooks, 2021. "City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(1), pages 52-62, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:55:y:2021:i:1:p:52-62
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1762856
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    1. Valeria Lingua, 2022. "Enhancing Spatial Imaginaries of Metropolitan Renaissance: A Regional Design Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-22, June.
    2. Mattila, Hanna & Heinilä, Aleksi, 2022. "Soft spaces, soft planning, soft law: Examining the institutionalisation of city-regional planning in Finland," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).

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