Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

About the Author

Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien and Tom Strickland, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, Graham Thrower, Head of the Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion, University of Sunderland and John Tomaney, Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, UK

Reviews

'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.'
--Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, US