Alan Townsend dgg6art@durham.ac.uk
Core Cities’ strong growth in the 2010s: Were they ‘leaving behind’ the rest of their regions?
Townsend, Alan; Champion, Tony
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Tony Champion
Abstract
Second-order cities are generally seen as disadvantaged places in the literature on globalisation, but in recent years they have staged a revival in several countries. This article uses two data sources to examine the employment change recorded by Britain’s Core Cities between 2012 and 2017, breaking it down by type of worker, occupation and industry. It aims, firstly, to identify which elements of their growth are distinctive compared to the country as a whole and, secondly, to see how far their growth has been emulated by the areas around them that contain the majority of Britain’s ‘left-behind’ places. The article demonstrates the great strides made by the nine provincial cities combined, substantially exceeding the national rate of increase for male, female, full-time, part-time, employee and self-employed work, notably in the three highest status occupational groups and in all industrial sectors apart from manufacturing and transport, especially business services. It is also found that their growth outstripped that of their local, regional and EU comparators, underlining the importance of direct policy intervention for ‘left-behind’ places rather than relying on ‘trickle-down’ processes, especially given uncertainties about the sustainability of Core City growth in the wake of COVID-19 and Brexit.
Citation
Townsend, A., & Champion, T. (2020). Core Cities’ strong growth in the 2010s: Were they ‘leaving behind’ the rest of their regions?. Local Economy, 35(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094220970913
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Dec 8, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Sep 22, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 22, 2021 |
Journal | Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit |
Print ISSN | 0269-0942 |
Electronic ISSN | 1470-9325 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 6 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094220970913 |
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