Andy Pike - Local and Regional Development

Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and, new and reformed approaches to intervention, policy and institutions for local and regional development.

Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of what kind of local and regional development and for whom?, its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions, and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed, critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context, grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.

Andy Pike is Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK.

Andrs Rodrguez-Pose is Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK.

John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

Local and Regional Development

Second Edition

Andy Pike, Andrs Rodrguez-Pose and John Tomaney

Andy Pike is Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests are in the geographical political economy of local and regional development. He is widely published in international journals, author of Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), co-author of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2006) (with Andrs Rodrguez-Pose and John Tomaney), editor of Brands and Branding Geographies (Elgar, 2011) and Whither Regional Studies? (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor of Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2011) and Local and Regional Development: Major Works (Routledge, 2015) (with Andrs Rodrguez-Pose and John Tomaney). He has undertaken research projects for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United NationsInternational Labour Organisation (UN-ILO), European Commission, UK Government and national, regional and local institutions. He is currently working on brands and branding geographies, evolution in economic geography, the governance of local and regional economic development, and the city-regional governance of infrastructure funding and financing. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was an editor of Regional Studies (200513) and was the founding Director of the Postgraduate Local and Regional Development programmes in CURDS (200214).

Andrs Rodrguez-Pose is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, UK, where he was previously Head of the Department of Geography and Environment. He is the President of the Regional Science Association International, where he served as Vice-President in 2014. He has been Vice-President (201213) and Secretary (200105) of the European Regional Science Association. He is also the current holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. He is a regular advisor to numerous international organisations, including the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, the Cities Alliance, the OECD, the International Labour Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Latin American Development Bank. He is the joint managing editor of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, an editor of Economic Geography, and sits on the editorial board of 28 other scholarly journals, including many of the leading international journals in economic geography, human geography, regional science, and management.

John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Formerly, he was Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University and Professor of Regional Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), a Fellow of the Regional Australia Institute and holds visiting positions at the University of New South Wales, University College Dublin and Newcastle University (UK). He is the co-author of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2006) (with Andy Pike and Andrs Rodrguez-Pose), and co-editor of Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2011) and Local and Regional Development: Major Works (Routledge, 2015) (with Andy Pike and Andrs Rodrguez-Pose). He has undertaken work for international organisations and national, regional and local governments in several countries. His work focuses on the governance of local and regional development and spatial planning, and the political, social and cultural foundations of regions.