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Resource ID: 997
Title: 'Scale' and the instituted construction of the urban: contrasting the cases of Manchester and Lyons
Description: Using intricacies of scale and also institutional perspectives on social and economic life and its governance as a framework, this paper reveals contrasting scalar strategies of interurban competition within two city case studies - Manchester and Lyons. It outlines the main theoretical and conceptual developments in the literature on scale.
Author(s): Sally Randles, Peter Dicken
Type of resource: Case study
Area covered: Manchester, UK, England, Lyons, France
Type of document: Journal article
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Journal: Environment and Planning A 2004 vol36(11) pp 2011 - 2032
Publisher: Pion Ltd
Year of publication: 2004
Availability: publisher, weblink
Is there a dataset? No
Associated web site: http://www.envplan.com/epa/abstracts/a36/a3694.html
Is a password required? No
Associated key phrases: balanced development, governance, learning regions, spatial scenarios, urban areas
Associated topics: 111, 330, 540