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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

by Andy Pike, Peter O'Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney

Economic historyInfrastructure (economics)Municipal governmentUrban economicsFinanceCity planning

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.

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