People, Places and Policy Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

• Main Authors: Jones, Martin, Orford, Scott, Macfarlane, Victoria
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2015; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Subjects: 21st century; A55 Corridor; ADRC; Annual Population Survey; Assembly’s Membership; Blaenau Gwent; Built Environment; Business; Cardiff; Central Local Relations; Development studies; Devolution; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economic conditions; Economic Geography; Economics; Economics of industrial organization; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; External ICT; Geography; Human geography; Industrial Economics; Innovation; Interdisciplinary studies; Knowledge; Merthyr Tydfil; Neath Port Talbot; Nonfiction; Ordnance Survey Data; Ph Illy; Planning; Political Geography; Politics and government; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional Development; Regional Science; Regional Studies; Regionalentwicklung; Regionalpolitik; Resilience; Rhondda Cynon Taf; Richard Florida; RSA; RSA Conference; Sally Hardy; Smart Cities; Snowdonia National Park; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; South East; South Wales Valleys; Spatial Econometrics; Spatial Economics; Spatial Ellipses; Spatial Plan Areas; Technology; Technopoles; Territory; Territory, Politics, Governance; The City; Unitary Authorities; Urban communities; Urban Planning; Urban Politics; Urban Studies; Urban Systems; Urban Theory; Wag; Wales; Wales > Economic conditions > 21st century; Wales > Politics and government > 21st century; Wales Spatial Plan; Welsh Government; Welsh Liberal Democrats; Welsh Regions; West Coast Locality; Williams Commission; Wirtschaftsförderung; WISERD; WLGA; Welsh Liberal Democrats; Cardiff; Wales; Blaenau Gwent; ADRC; Knowledge; Technopoles; Regional Science; Richard Florida; Spatial Econometrics; Technology; Ordnance Survey Data; RSA; Urban Systems; Territory; Urban Planning; South East; Devolution; Smart Cities; Annual Population Survey; Welsh Regions; Unitary Authorities; Resilience; Regional Studies; South Wales Valleys; Planning; Wag; Snowdonia National Park; Central Local Relations; Regional Development; WLGA; Ph Illy; Merthyr Tydfil; Sally Hardy; A55 Corridor; Built Environment; Innovation; External ICT; Williams Commission; RSA Conference; Urban Studies; Spatial Economics; Neath Port Talbot; The City; Assembly's Membership; Wales Spatial Plan; Spatial Plan Areas; Territory, Politics, Governance; Spatial Ellipses; Rhondda Cynon Taf; West Coast Locality; WISERD; Welsh Government
• ISBN: 1138925209; 9781138925205; 0367871505; 9780367871505; 9781317407553; 1317407563; 9781317407577; 1315683903; 1317407571; 9781315683904; 1317407555; 9781317407560
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315683904

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography.