DR NICOLA HEADLAM HESELTINE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND PRACTICE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL POST-CRASH CITIES CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF YORK 5 TH JULY 2013 Exquisite paradox of localism, gaming the north, & the long bust
Jul 26, 2015
DR NICOLA HEADLAM
HESELTINE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND PRACTICE
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
POST-CRASH CITIES CONFERENCEUNIVERSITY OF YORK
5 T H JULY 2013
Exquisite paradox of localism, gaming the north, & the long bust
1.WHY EXQUISITE PARADOX? 2.SCALING BOURDIEU’S 2 HANDS?
3. THE URBAN INDUSTRY4. ORIGINAL:MODERN (?)
Build tents not temples…the sound of one hand
clapping…
Georg Simmel
“Economic facts are social facts are psychic facts are aesthetic facts”
The metropolis & mental life…
Who/whom? & where..
Fundamental questions of constitutional structures, central-local relations, institutional co-ordination, and public expenditure… are addressed as the perhaps unglamorous dimensions of sub-national government and governance.
(Pike and Tomaney 2004)
1. Exquisite paradox of “localism”
“WELL THAT’S NOT THE WAY, BUT THAT’S NOT THE WAY THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT
DOES THINGS, (Y’KNOW) THERE’S NOTHING ABOUT “DO IT THIS WAY”, IT’S ABOUT CRUDELY, WE’LL CONTINUE TO
MAKE YOUR LIFE SO UNPLEASANT UNTIL YOU CAN FIGURE YOURSELF
INTO A WAY IN WHICH WE FIND ACCEPTABLE, IF I WERE BEING CRUDE ABOUT IT, (LAUGHTER) ERM BUT WE WON’T TELL YOU WHAT THAT IS.”
(INTERVIEW MAY 2013)
2. The degeneration of regeneration
Intransitive verbs – no subject no object“Big tent” 3rd way urbanism and the post-
politicalUrban strategic milieu - policy not politics*
State as conundrum (problematic) Urban “industry” & panjandrum
Spatially extended product: “Brand, plan & strategy”
Place marketing – symbolic and visible
(3) Long boom : austerity localism
neo-liberalism squared “debate”“people not place” hands of the state
right punishes / left strokesAusterity localism
exit strategy for the state barnet ‘graph of doom’ – scripts - technologies
Urban Right hand
Local/Urban regulationFiscal (fiduciary) taxation – redistribution
(damping) Cuts - Local Govt Finance - Business Rates
Spatial – control through spatial planning system Development Control
Cognitive – Local govt subservience / lack of autonomy
Urban Left hand
Local/Urban policyFiscal (?) Regeneration, economic development, urban policy - Social welfare spending - £ “Damping”EU structural fundingSpatial Regeneration / Area Based InitiativesCognitive – public service ethos