Contents // Preface and acknowledgements vi // 1 Introduction: geographical political economy, neoliberalism, // and the crisis space impedimenta state 1 // PART I THE NEW LOCALISM // 2 Government and governance 40 // 3 Urban crisis and contradiction 57 // 4 Zones of welfare and workfare 84 // PART II THE NEW REGIONALISM // 5 Regional Development Agencies 104 // 6 Spaces of regionalism 120 // 7 City-region building 140 // PART III THE NEW NEW LOCALISM // 8 Locality making 154 // 9 Devolution dynamics 170 // 10 Devolution depoliticisation 182 // PART IV ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM // 11 Developing inclusive growth 205 // 12 Beyond withered local states 215 // Postscript: the Stoke road to Brexit 229 // References 240 // Index 289