Unfortunately, this public keynote lecture is cancelled.
Invitation to a public keynote lecture
We are delighted to invite you to the public keynote lecture by
Professor Andy Pike (“Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure”Newcastle University, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) on
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.