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Journal of Economic Geography 2007 7(3):311-332; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm005
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From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes

John Harrison*

*Corresponding author: Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK. email < j.harrison4{at}lboro.ac.uk>

Under the titles of ‘global city-regions’ and the new ‘city regionalism’ there has been a growing support for a resurgence of city-regions within economic geography. While sympathetic to the general tenor of the new city-regionalism, this article argues for a more synthetic approach to understanding the significance of the city-region. It is argued that the same inherent weaknesses that undermined the previous new regionalist orthodoxy within economic geography, have been collapsed into the present focus upon the scale of the city-region. The article concludes by looking at the broader implications of this for the future of economic geography.

Keywords: Economic geography, regions, city-regions, England,
JEL classifications: R11, R58
Date submitted: 18 December 2006     Date accepted: 12 February 2007


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