Richard Meegan

Why countries should invest in second tier cities beyond their capitals and decentralise decision making to improve national economic competitiveness . Based on extensive primary quantitative and qualitative research across over 150 cities.

Region has achieved a lot and there is a lot to build upon. With the right leadership, capacity and ambition, it could achieve even more in future. MAKING THE MOST OF DEVOLUTION iii | MAKING THE MOST OF DEVOLUTION | iv Foreword We were delighted on behalf of our two universities to support this report on 'The State of Liverpool City Region: Making...

Quantitative review of impact of recession upon UK cities comparison international competitors

Doreen Massey (1944–2016): a geographer who really mattered. Regional Studies. In this virtual special issue we celebrate Doreen Massey’s work, and specifically the influence of her meticulously crafted ‘relational approach’ to understanding space and place on debates in regional studies. We bring together the four papers (three single-authored and...

This article discusses the contribution that second-tier cities can and do make to the economic performance of national economies across Europe. It reviews the competing theories about size, investment and economic performance. It presents a range of evidence about the performance of over 150 European capital and second-tier cities in 31 countries....

There has been much debate about the impact of recession and austerity on the voluntary and community sector over recent years. Using secondary data from the 2008 National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, Clifford et al. (2013), writing in this journal, have argued that voluntary sector organisations located in more deprived local authorities...

A key feature of the rise of neoliberal politics and policy has been the progressive shift of risk from corporations and national states to the local government, individuals and households. In this article, we argue that, in the UK, ‘great risk shift’ has not only been intensified by recession and austerity but has also been marked by the unevennes...

Leeds is the third largest Metropolitan District in the United Kingdom and the administrative and employment centre of the Yorkshire and the Humber region in the north of England. From being dominated initially by textiles and clothing manufacture, it has seen the development of engineering and the rise of services, notably business and financial s...

The post-2008 global economic recession has had different spatial impacts as national and subnational economies are affected by and respond to economic downturn in a variety of ways. Drawing on recent research on the two English Core Cities of Bristol and Liverpool this paper develops an integrated and multiscalar analysis to explore the differenti...

The global recession, Eurozone crisis and austerity programmes have had a huge impact upon the European economy and present even greater future threats. They have sharpened debates about policies for recovery and the role that different territories can play in this. In this context in particular they have encouraged a debate about the economic cont...

Impact of credit crunch on the northern economy

This chapter examines the regeneration initiative in Merseyside, England, designed to address the issues of social exclusion and concentrated disadvantage. A distinctive feature of this program is the so-called Pathways to Integration priority, which involves the targeting of a significant tranche of spending towards areas of the city-region experi...

As clearly demonstrated elsewhere in this volume (Chapters Two to Five for example), marked spatial concentration of disadvantage is a significant feature of major urban areas across the UK both prosperous and less buoyant. Problems of social exclusion and a lack of social cohesion persist despite considerable variation in competitive strength. At...

This chapter charts some of the ‘regeneration’ attempts in Liverpool in five periods: the decentralisation of people and employment in the 1950s and 1960s; the inner-city problems of the 1970s; the radical politics of the 1980s; the ‘governance by partnership’ of the 1990s; and the city's current position in the twenty-first century.

Neighbourhood has become a key spatial scale in the UK government's policies for urban regeneration and social inclusion, resuscitating the long-standing debate over the ef cacy of area-based policies. The paper argues that the latter need to be sensitive to the interaction between macro-structural and local, reinforcing processes and that 'people-...

In recent years community involvement and increasingly social capital have become central themes in debates and policies surrounding urban regeneration. This paper attempts to contribute to these debates by reviewing the role of social capital in the context of a major regeneration initiative, namely the European Union-sponsored Objective One Progr...

The paper attempts to locate issues surrounding local and regional economic development and governance in the European context in broader theoretical debates which identify shifts in national government towards the adoption of neo‐Liberal agendas and the related pressures faced by local government to relinquish policies of urban managerialism for t...

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The paper attempts to address recent debates surrounding the supposed emergence of a ‘Europe of the Regions'—from the perspective of a city situated at the core of a lagging region’ on the European periphery, Liverpool. After briefly exploring whether the social and economic regeneration of Liverpool makes sense in this European context, the paper...

Along with the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), the Merseyside Development Corporation (MDC) formed the first generation of urban development corporations in the UK. This chapter related the activites of the MDC to current debates in the social sciences and particularly human geography. The first of these debates surrounds the signi...

Both the regional geography of the UK and the way in which we analyse it have been undergoing profound changes over the last two decades. In many ways the two things have been linked. Changes in the geography of employment posed questions which our old theories of industrial location and of regional inequality were quite incapable of answering. In...

Sets Merseyside's outer urban estates in the changing context of the UK's urban and regional systems. Identifies the theoretical and methodological standpoint of locality research in this area, before specifying a number of key research themes and questions. -T.Hoare

Changes in levels of regional manufacturing employment should be viewed as the net result of movements in both output and labour productivity. Different structural balances between output and productivity change may be a significant cause of interregional differences in employment change. -Authors

The paper argues that changes in the national economy are important in an explanation of inner city job changes and focuses upon structural reorganisation in the electrical, electronics and aerospace equipment sectors. In the survey firms, these sectors lost over 36,000 jobs in the study period, most of them in London, Manchester, Merseyside, and B...

The paper argues that Changes in the national economy are important in an explanation of inner City job Changes and focuses upon structural reorganisation in the electrical, electronics and aerospace equipment sectors. In the survey firms, these sectors lost over 36,000 jobs in the study period, most of them in London, Manchester, Merseyside, and B...

About the book: How do geographers do economic geography? This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and feminist...