Thompson, M;
Southern, A;
Heap, H;
(2020)
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region.
Urban Studies
10.1177/0042098020972654.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098020972654 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020972654 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | anchor institutions, city-regionalism, local economic development, social economy, urban policy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10135716 |
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