People, Places and Policy

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interestin...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1609702025-05-31T06:12:46Z People, Places and Policy Jones, Martin Orford, Scott Macfarlane, Victoria Wales Spatial Plan Neath Port Talbot Blaenau Gwent Rhondda Cynon Taf Ph Illy Wag A55 Corridor Welsh Government Snowdonia National Park Ordnance Survey Data South Wales Valleys ADRC South East WLGA West Coast Locality Annual Population Survey Unitary Authorities Williams Commission Spatial Plan Areas Spatial Ellipses Merthyr Tydfil Central Local Relations Welsh Liberal Democrats External ICT Assembly’s Membership thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography. 2025-05-31T06:12:45Z 2025-05-31T06:12:45Z 2025-05-30T10:26:40Z 2015 book ONIX_20250530T122022_9781317407577_47 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103201 9781317407577 9781317407560 9781317407553 9780367871505 9781315683904 9781138925205 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160970 eng Regions and Cities open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103201/1/9781317407577.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315683904 10.4324/9781315683904 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781317407577 9781317407560 9781317407553 9780367871505 9781315683904 9781138925205 Routledge 174 Oxford open access
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Neath Port Talbot
Blaenau Gwent
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ph Illy
Wag
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Welsh Government
Snowdonia National Park
Ordnance Survey Data
South Wales Valleys
ADRC
South East
WLGA
West Coast Locality
Annual Population Survey
Unitary Authorities
Williams Commission
Spatial Plan Areas
Spatial Ellipses
Merthyr Tydfil
Central Local Relations
Welsh Liberal Democrats
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Assembly’s Membership
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thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
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People, Places and Policy
title People, Places and Policy
title_full People, Places and Policy
title_fullStr People, Places and Policy
title_full_unstemmed People, Places and Policy
title_short People, Places and Policy
title_sort people places and policy
topic Wales Spatial Plan
Neath Port Talbot
Blaenau Gwent
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ph Illy
Wag
A55 Corridor
Welsh Government
Snowdonia National Park
Ordnance Survey Data
South Wales Valleys
ADRC
South East
WLGA
West Coast Locality
Annual Population Survey
Unitary Authorities
Williams Commission
Spatial Plan Areas
Spatial Ellipses
Merthyr Tydfil
Central Local Relations
Welsh Liberal Democrats
External ICT
Assembly’s Membership
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization
topic_facet Wales Spatial Plan
Neath Port Talbot
Blaenau Gwent
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ph Illy
Wag
A55 Corridor
Welsh Government
Snowdonia National Park
Ordnance Survey Data
South Wales Valleys
ADRC
South East
WLGA
West Coast Locality
Annual Population Survey
Unitary Authorities
Williams Commission
Spatial Plan Areas
Spatial Ellipses
Merthyr Tydfil
Central Local Relations
Welsh Liberal Democrats
External ICT
Assembly’s Membership
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization
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