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City profile: Cardiff and the shift to city-regionalism
Highlights Cardiff’s development has been shaped by its role as the capital city of Wales. The Cardiff city-region exhibits diverse socio-economic outcomes. Metro, an integrated transport project, aims to improve access to jobs. Governance arrangements are taking shape to support city-region policymaking. City-regionalism in Cardiff is emerging from an asymmetric policy landscape.
Abstract The Welsh Government has revived its interest in city and city-region policies. Couched within the broad rubrics of sustainable economic development and economic renewal, focus is now steered toward enabling the dynamic economic development opportunities that the city-region is seen to latently possess. With policymakers looking to arrangements in Greater Manchester with some admiration, this paper sets out how policy and governance is being fashioned in Cardiff, mindful of the shifting but ongoing inter-dependencies between city and hinterland. A story of a shift to “city-regionalism”, working through the parameters of mimicry, aspiration, political palatability and experimentation, is presented in this profile.
City profile: Cardiff and the shift to city-regionalism
Highlights Cardiff’s development has been shaped by its role as the capital city of Wales. The Cardiff city-region exhibits diverse socio-economic outcomes. Metro, an integrated transport project, aims to improve access to jobs. Governance arrangements are taking shape to support city-region policymaking. City-regionalism in Cardiff is emerging from an asymmetric policy landscape.
Abstract The Welsh Government has revived its interest in city and city-region policies. Couched within the broad rubrics of sustainable economic development and economic renewal, focus is now steered toward enabling the dynamic economic development opportunities that the city-region is seen to latently possess. With policymakers looking to arrangements in Greater Manchester with some admiration, this paper sets out how policy and governance is being fashioned in Cardiff, mindful of the shifting but ongoing inter-dependencies between city and hinterland. A story of a shift to “city-regionalism”, working through the parameters of mimicry, aspiration, political palatability and experimentation, is presented in this profile.
City profile: Cardiff and the shift to city-regionalism
Waite, David (author)
Cities ; 48 ; 21-30
2015-05-25
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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