City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England

The emergence of city-regions in England offers some useful lessons for the World Bank partners in developing countries. The city-region approach, as applied in England touches upon issues of decentralization, intergovernmental fiscal relations, go...

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Main Authors:	Larkin, Kieran, Marshall, Adam
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES AIRPORT BUS BUS SERVICE BUSES CAR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIES CITY AUTHORITIES CITY CENTRE CITY LEADERSHIP CITY REGION CITY-REGION CITY-REGION CONCEPT CITY-REGIONS CITY·REGIONS CONGESTION CONGESTION CHARGING COUNCILS DECISION-MAKING DEVOLUTION OF POWERS DRIVERS ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC CHANGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPLOYMENT RATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS HOUSING INDUSTRIAL LAND JOURNEYS LABOR MARKETS LED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES LOCAL RESOURCES LOCAL TRANSPORT MAYORS NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS POLITICIANS PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT REFERENDUM REGIONAL APPROACH REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS REGIONAL AUTHORITIES REGIONAL COLLABORATION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL GOVERNANCE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT REGIONAL POLICY REGIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK REPRESENTATIVES REVOLUTION SERVICE DELIVERY TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINS TRAM TRAM SYSTEM TRANSPORT TRANSPORT INVESTMENT TRANSPORT STRATEGY URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN ECONOMIES URBAN ECONOMY URBAN GROWTH URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WORKING AGE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/15515262/city-regions-emerging-lessons-england http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10269

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spelling	okr-10986-102692021-04-23T14:02:49Z City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England Larkin, Kieran Marshall, Adam ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES AIRPORT BUS BUS SERVICE BUSES CAR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIES CITY AUTHORITIES CITY CENTRE CITY LEADERSHIP CITY REGION CITY-REGION CITY-REGION CONCEPT CITY-REGIONS CITY·REGIONS CONGESTION CONGESTION CHARGING COUNCILS DECISION-MAKING DEVOLUTION OF POWERS DRIVERS ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC CHANGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPLOYMENT RATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS HOUSING INDUSTRIAL LAND JOURNEYS LABOR MARKETS LED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES LOCAL RESOURCES LOCAL TRANSPORT MAYORS NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS POLITICIANS PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT REFERENDUM REGIONAL APPROACH REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS REGIONAL AUTHORITIES REGIONAL COLLABORATION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL GOVERNANCE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT REGIONAL POLICY REGIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK REPRESENTATIVES REVOLUTION SERVICE DELIVERY TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINS TRAM TRAM SYSTEM TRANSPORT TRANSPORT INVESTMENT TRANSPORT STRATEGY URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN ECONOMIES URBAN ECONOMY URBAN GROWTH URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WORKING AGE The emergence of city-regions in England offers some useful lessons for the World Bank partners in developing countries. The city-region approach, as applied in England touches upon issues of decentralization, intergovernmental fiscal relations, governance, and the need to realign outdated administrative arrangements with a metropolitan area's economic footprint, among other highly relevant topics for rapidly urbanizing cities in developing countries. As a concept, city-regions are designed to promote cross-boundary collaboration across large urban areas. They aim to facilitate horizontal and vertical co-ordination between multiple jurisdictions. They advance the concept of an appropriate spatial scale for economic development functions such as transport, housing and training. They capture urban hinterlands, as well as core cities. This note explains: 1) the emergence of city-regions in England, 2) the current policy framework in England, 3) a case study of Greater Manchester, 4) city-region contracts as a policy tool to codify intergovernmental institutional arrangements, and 5) transferable lessons. 2012-08-13T11:01:09Z 2012-08-13T11:01:09Z 2008-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/15515262/city-regions-emerging-lessons-england http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10269 English Directions in Urban Development CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia United Kingdom
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topic	ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES AIRPORT BUS BUS SERVICE BUSES CAR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIES CITY AUTHORITIES CITY CENTRE CITY LEADERSHIP CITY REGION CITY-REGION CITY-REGION CONCEPT CITY-REGIONS CITY·REGIONS CONGESTION CONGESTION CHARGING COUNCILS DECISION-MAKING DEVOLUTION OF POWERS DRIVERS ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC CHANGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPLOYMENT RATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS HOUSING INDUSTRIAL LAND JOURNEYS LABOR MARKETS LED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES LOCAL RESOURCES LOCAL TRANSPORT MAYORS NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS POLITICIANS PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT REFERENDUM REGIONAL APPROACH REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS REGIONAL AUTHORITIES REGIONAL COLLABORATION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL GOVERNANCE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT REGIONAL POLICY REGIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK REPRESENTATIVES REVOLUTION SERVICE DELIVERY TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINS TRAM TRAM SYSTEM TRANSPORT TRANSPORT INVESTMENT TRANSPORT STRATEGY URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN ECONOMIES URBAN ECONOMY URBAN GROWTH URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WORKING AGE
spellingShingle	ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES AIRPORT BUS BUS SERVICE BUSES CAR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CITIES CITY AUTHORITIES CITY CENTRE CITY LEADERSHIP CITY REGION CITY-REGION CITY-REGION CONCEPT CITY-REGIONS CITY·REGIONS CONGESTION CONGESTION CHARGING COUNCILS DECISION-MAKING DEVOLUTION OF POWERS DRIVERS ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC CHANGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPLOYMENT RATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS HOUSING INDUSTRIAL LAND JOURNEYS LABOR MARKETS LED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES LOCAL RESOURCES LOCAL TRANSPORT MAYORS NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS POLITICIANS PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT REFERENDUM REGIONAL APPROACH REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS REGIONAL AUTHORITIES REGIONAL COLLABORATION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL GOVERNANCE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT REGIONAL POLICY REGIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK REPRESENTATIVES REVOLUTION SERVICE DELIVERY TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINS TRAM TRAM SYSTEM TRANSPORT TRANSPORT INVESTMENT TRANSPORT STRATEGY URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN ECONOMIES URBAN ECONOMY URBAN GROWTH URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION WORKING AGE Larkin, Kieran Marshall, Adam City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
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description	The emergence of city-regions in England offers some useful lessons for the World Bank partners in developing countries. The city-region approach, as applied in England touches upon issues of decentralization, intergovernmental fiscal relations, governance, and the need to realign outdated administrative arrangements with a metropolitan area's economic footprint, among other highly relevant topics for rapidly urbanizing cities in developing countries. As a concept, city-regions are designed to promote cross-boundary collaboration across large urban areas. They aim to facilitate horizontal and vertical co-ordination between multiple jurisdictions. They advance the concept of an appropriate spatial scale for economic development functions such as transport, housing and training. They capture urban hinterlands, as well as core cities. This note explains: 1) the emergence of city-regions in England, 2) the current policy framework in England, 3) a case study of Greater Manchester, 4) city-region contracts as a policy tool to codify intergovernmental institutional arrangements, and 5) transferable lessons.
format	Publications & Research :: Brief
author	Larkin, Kieran Marshall, Adam
author_facet	Larkin, Kieran Marshall, Adam
author_sort	Larkin, Kieran
title	City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
title_short	City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
title_full	City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
title_fullStr	City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
title_full_unstemmed	City-Regions : Emerging Lessons from England
title_sort	city-regions : emerging lessons from england
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/15515262/city-regions-emerging-lessons-england http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10269
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