Spatial inequality has drawn renewed scholarly interests and societal concerns. This paper
reviews the literature on regional inequality, with a focus on spatiality of regional …

How urban infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is a central issue for states at the
national, city-regional and city scales. Urban infrastructure is being financialised by financial …

This article examines the history of the use of regimes in urban politics. It argues the
highlight is Stone's Regime politics because he uses the concept of regime to answer a …

In recent times, a conventional wisdom concerning the governance of cities has emerged. It
revolves around the contention that policy and planning frameworks are increasingly closed …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spatiotemporal pattern of county economy and
investigate the multi-mechanism process of regional inequality in rural China. Empirical …

In this paper we consider issues surrounding the formation of partnerships for the delivery of
rural regeneration. Partnership processes are of vital importance because of the central role …

The governance of infrastructure funding and financing at the city-region scale is a critical
aspect of the continued search for mechanisms to channel investment into the urban …

Since 1980 the dominance of elected municipal government in Britain has given way to a
broader local governance. While the precise configuration of this change has been debated …

This paper explores the formation and practices of Marketing Manchester in the context of
the rise of the partnership model of urban management and the apparent emergence of …

Urban managers have been faced by growing problems in recent decades. Social and
economic inequalities within cities have steadily grown, whereas shifting global economic …