Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Issue 4 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wachsmuth, David
• Is Part Of: Regional studies. Volume 51:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 643
• Page End: 653
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: competitive multi-city regionalism -- growth machine -- local economic development; 比较多重城市区域主义 -- 成长机器 -- 地方经济发展; régionalisme multiville concurrentiel -- machine à croissance -- développement économique local; konkurrierender Multistadt-Regionalismus -- Wachstumsmaschine -- lokale Wirtschaftsentwicklung; regionalismo competitivo de varias ciudades -- máquina de crecimiento -- desarrollo económico local; R11 -- R58; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 307.14
• DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1223840
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-3404

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Regional Studies . Local growth politics are increasingly conducted at scales that confound the assumptions of growth machine theory. This paper analyzes 'competitive multi-city regionalism' in the United States – local growth coalitions collaborating on economic development across multiple city-regions. It introduces the concept of 'scalar logics of regionalism' to characterize the multiple regionalism projects at work throughout the state–economy nexus, and develops a comparative case study of regionalism initiatives in Arizona, Florida and Ohio to demonstrate the importance of interactions and conflict between different scalar logics in determining the multi-scalar outcomes of local growth politics.