Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge

by Ron Martin, Peter Tyler, Andy Pike, et al.

This book aims to understand the predicaments of 'left behind places' and the scale of the policy challenge of 'levelling up' their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades amidst deindustrialisation, post-industrial transition and the disruptive shocks of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Using the UK case...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032244305
• ISBN13: 9781032244303
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages