Towards a regional renaissance? Reconfiguring and rescaling England's economic governance

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-313

  Jones, Martin ^a   MacLeodt, Gordon ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

After Fordism; Development; England; New regionalism; Scale; The state; Uneven

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PLANNING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGIONALISM;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032748993     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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