People, Places and Policy: Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

ISBN-13: 9780367871505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str.

Martin Jones; Scott Orford; Victoria MacFarlane

Opis

This consolidation of Wales as a regional/national space of social and economic governance, with increasingly sharp territorial definition has refocused attention on the dynamics of spatial difference within the country. The authors of the book analyse the impact of the changes and the way the Welsh localities stack up against o

Spis treści

1 Introducing WISERD localities 2 Reframing the devolved policy landscape in Wales 3 Wales: a statistical perspective 4 The Heads of the Valleys 5 East, west and the bit in the middle: localities in north Wales 6 Locating the mid Wales economy 7 New localities in action and reaction

O autorze

Martin Jones is Professor of Urban and Regional Political Economy, University of Sheffield, UK.

Scott Orford is Reader in GIS and Spatial Analysis, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Wales.

Victoria Macfarlane is Director of Operations at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), Cardiff University, Wales.