Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781788118941
Subjects: Infrastructure (economics); Urban economics; Municipal government
Description: Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculati.