Suchergebnisse

1. The anatomy of urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region : case of the Girona districts, 1979-2006 / Juli Valdunciel-Coll -- 2. Urban regeneration in Porto : reflections on a fragmented sub-regional space, without institutional powers and "lost" between central government and local authorities / Pedro Chamusca -- 3. Consumption of advanced internet services in urban areas : a case study of Madrid / Ruben Camilo Lois-Gonzalez, Francisco Jose Armas-Quinta and Jose Carlos Macia-Arce -- 4. Housing market dynamics in a peripheral region : the Atlantic urban axis in Galicia, Spain : 2001-2010 / Alejandro Lopez-Gonzalez and Maria-Jose Pineira-Mantinan -- 5. Viability of flagship projects as models of urban regeneration : the representation of space through the discourse of the actors / Jose Ignacio Vila Vazquez -- 6. Creativity beyond large metropolitan areas : challenges for intermediate cities in a globalized economy / Joan Ganau-Casas -- 7. Is Pennine England becoming more polycentric or more centripetal? An analysis of commuting flows in a transforming industrial region, 1981-2001 / Tony Champion and Mike Coombes -- 8. Riots by a growing social periphery? Interpreting the 2011 urban riots in England / Wayne K.D. Davies -- 9. In the shadow of a giant : core-peripheral contrasts in South East England / Daniel P. O'Donoghue -- 10. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel : regional development perspectives / Christian Wichmann Matthiessen -- 11. Vertical extension processes and urban restructuring in Sydney, Australia / Jun Tsutsumi -- 12. Inner-city social gentrification in Tokyo : the problem of childcare / Mikoto Kukimoto. [et al.] -- 13. Power nodes : downtowns in the periphery? A case study, Toronto, Canada / Jim Simmons -- 14. Just "dumb and boring" or "over"? Lifecycle-trajectories, the credit crunch and the challenge of suburban regeneration in the US / Markus Hesse -- 15. Urban transformation for sustainability and social justice in urban peripheries : new forms of urban segregation in post-apartheid cities / Simphiwe Mini -- 16. Recent morphological trends in metropolitan South Africa / H.S. Geyer. [et al.] -- 17. Metropolitan transformation and polycentric structure in Mexico City : identification of urban sub-centres, 1989-2005 / Adrian Guillermo Aguilar and Josefina Hernandez-Lozano -- 18. Delhi and its peripheral region : perspectives on settlement growth / Debnath Mookherjee, H.S. Geyer and Eugene Hoerauf.

AbstractThe British Government's economic strategy for post‐Brexit Britain of achieving balanced regional growth by "driving growth across the whole country" echoes the objectives set by the Barlow Report of 1940. The regional policies that followed the Barlow Report were heavily influenced by papers written for the Commission by G D A (later Sir Donald) MacDougall. The first of these papers was included as an appendix to the report itself and introduced the shift‐share methodology to the analysis of regional employment growth, and subsequently shown to be flawed. The second paper considered the urban hierarchy and growth but was never fully developed. Consequently post‐war regional policy focussed on the contribution of industrial structure to employment growth without fully taking into account the urban hierarchy or regional locations of that employment. This article replaces the flawed shift‐share methodology with multifactor partitioning (MFP) and applies it to regional employment growth for the period 1971‐2012, a span of special interest because it largely coincides with British membership of the European Union (EU). The deficiencies in the second paper are addressed by introducing allometry to measure the employment growth of each region relative to that of Great Britain and then regression analysis to relate the allometries to distance from London. The results of the two sets of analyses highlight the need for a multiple‐factor, comprehensive, and integrated approach to regional policy and provide a benchmark against which to gauge the success of Britain's post‐Brexit policy of driving future growth across the whole country.