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Keynote : Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

  • Department of Geography and Spatial Planning
    13 April 2022
  • Category
    Research
  • Topic
    Geography & Spatial Planning

We are delighted to invite you to the public keynote lecture by Professor Andy Pike (Newcastle University, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) on ‘Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure’.

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.

When? 23 May, 2022, 13:00-14:00

Where? Maison des Sciences Humaines, LISER Salle de Conférence, 1st floor, Campus Belval, 11, Porte des Sciences, Esch-sur-Alzette

Contact:sabine.doerry@liser.luchristian.schulz@uni.lu /

The keynote lecture by Prof Andy Pike is part of an internal workshop organised by the Green Economies Network and co-hosted by the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research and the University of Luxembourg, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning.