| City Region |
Article Index for City |
Website Links For City |
Information AboutCity Region |
|
In studying Human Geography , Urban And Regional Planning or the regional dynamics of business it is often worthwhile having closer regard to dominant travel patterns during the working day (to the extent that these can be estimated and recorded), than to the rather arbitrary boundaries assigned to administrative bodies such as councils, prefectures, or to localities defined merely to optimise postal services. Inevitably City Regions change their shapes over time and quite reasonably politicians seek to redraw administrative boundary maps from time-to-time to keep in-tune with perceived geographic reality. The extent of a city region is usually proportional to the intensity of activity in and around its Central Business District , but the spacing of competing centres of population can also be highly influential. It will be apprciated that a city region need not have a symmetrical shape, and that is especially true in coastal or lakeside situations (consider for instance Oslo, Southampton or Chicago). In the United Kingdom, the city regional agenda is picking up as an alternative to the Regional Assemblies In England that were favoured as a partial answer to the West Lothian Question but rejected in a Referendum by voters in North East England in November 2004 . The concept of city regions and their development features heavily in The Northern Way , a collaborative development plan between the three northernmost English Regional Development Agencies . An embryonic city regional framework exists in the form of the Passenger Transport Executive and the Core Cities Group . The October 2006 Local Government White Paper does not contain firm proposals for city-region-wide authorities. The New Local Government Network has proposed the creation of city regions as part of on-going reform efforts, while a report released by the IPPR 's Centre For Cities has proposed the creation of two large city-regions based on Manchester and Birmingham . Also in 2006, the OECD published a number of studies on city regions, including an assessment profile of the Newcastle-Gateshead city region and a review of numerous city regions across the world {Link without Title} . In being considered by councils in Greater Manchester. EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|