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A battle on two fronts: competitive urges 'inside' Atlanta
Author(s) -
Whitelegg Drew
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00065
Subject(s) - atlanta , battle , competition (biology) , promotion (chess) , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , political science , economic geography , sociology , political economy , regional science , metropolitan area , economics , law , history , ecology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , politics , biology
This paper argues that intra –regional competition is as important as intra –regional in the shaping of an urban region. Recent concentration on urban promotion within the discipline places an emphasis on competition between cities that should be counterbalanced by stressing the degree of competition between cities and their suburban peripheries. Using the case of Atlanta, Georgia, and in particular its Vision 2020 initiative, the paper explores how regionalist approaches can easily unravel due to continued rivalries from individual constituents. Placing its theoretical grounding within David Harvey’s notion of ‘structural coherence’, the paper argues that regional policies within a capitalist environment of uneven development tend towards only temporary solutions.