The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mass transport infrastructure in the USA. It...

Using an urban regime theory approach, the article aims to investigate the degree to which environmental policy in England is devolved to the local level of the state and integrates with local economic governance. Copyright (c) 2003 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.

The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban competition often had negative environmental consequences for the urban living place. Yet knowledge of...

Counsell D., Hart T., Jonas A. E. G. and Kettle J. (2007) Fragmented regionalism? Delivering integrated regional strategies in Yorkshire and the Humber, Regional Studies 41, -. The paper draws upon research conducted in Yorkshire and the Humber to explore the issues and tensions surrounding the...

In the United States, new environmental policy instruments have emerged to address some of the economic, social and environmental contradictions of neoliberal urbanism. Amongst these instruments, regional habitat conservation planning under the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) is becoming de...