Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics
Phelps, N.A., Parsons, N., Ballas, D. and Dowling, A. (2006) Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 8, (3), 273-280. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00663.x).
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The issue of the organization, role and influence of business interests in urban politics at the edge of major cities is one that is overdue for investigation. This article provides an initial and empirically oriented investigation of the organization, role and influence of business interests in edge urban politics in Europe. We present findings from five members of a European network of self-styled `edge cities'. Following the now extensive debate in academic literature regarding the applicability of US concepts such as growth machines and urban regimes to the European setting, we draw attention to a diversity of business involvement in urban politics at the edge of Europe's capital cities. This diversity does include instances that, despite the very different `macro-necessities' structuring edge urban politics in Europe, approximate to these concepts. Moreover, the diversity apparent in edge urban business politics raises several important questions for future research on urban governance. Namely, the complex connection between the local dependence of business and the organization of its interests; the `jumping of scales' by locally dependent edge urban actors, and the sometimes neglected articulation of business interests with party political organization
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0309-1317 (print) |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HG Finance G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Geography > Economy, Culture, Space |
| Item ID: | 57708 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 09:38 |
| Contributors: | Phelps, N.A. (Author) Parsons, N. (Author) Ballas, D. (Author) Dowling, A. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/57708 |
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