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This chapter addresses the theme of Local Issues and Global Implications. Its thesis is that towards the end of the twentieth century successful cities must reflect, and at the same time reinforce, a regional identity since, with the possible exception of the largest world cities — of which there is only one in Britain — cities are too small to create a sense of economic or political identity appropriate to the twenty-first century. In terms of politics and governance the issue is whether the locality — the city-region in general but the Bristol city-region in particular — has sufficient political and administrative capacity to secure the necessary coordination and control for ‘global’ competition, yet is also sufficiently flexible to sustain the ‘local’ identity necessary for success in that competition.
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Stewart, M. (1999). The Politics of Interdependence — Risk and Uncertainty in the City-Region. In: Blanke, B., Smith, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982273_3
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