The city-regional scale is increasingly being considered the most suitable level for planning
and development, yet city-regions have often been established for purely economic reasons …

This paper draws attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of Metrophilia, the fashionable
yet uncritical embrace of city-centric narratives of development in place-based policymaking …

There are changing dynamics among political regionalization processes and the rescaling
of nation-states in Europe. However, updated and timely research remains scant …

Metagovernance refers to a theory of how governments steer decentralised networks by
indirectly shaping the rules and norms of those networks. This article develops …

The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world. However,
the geopolitical motivation or regional coalition alone cannot fully explain the actual …

This paper provides new conceptual and empirical insights into the role city-regions play as
part of a geopolitical strategy deployed by the nation state to enact its own interests, in …

The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the 'city region'have seen a renaissance
as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One …

This paper discusses the creation of a growth deal for North Wales (The North Wales Growth
Deal–NWGD). North Wales is primarily a rural region within the UK, without a core-city or …

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic
development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite …

International studies show that relative levels of regional (de) centralisation are associated
with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience …