Greater Manchester - 'up and going'?
By: HEBBERT, Michael
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Contributor(s): DEAS, Iain.
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ArticlePublisher: UK : Policy Press, jan. 2000Subject(s): ChinaPolicy & Politics 28, 1, p. 79-92Abstract: In 1997-98 the artless slogan 'Great Britain, Greater Manchester ... we're up and going' made its appearance on buses and billboards. Propaganda for metropolitan consciousness in NorthWest England echoed a widely observed contemporary trend towards a strengthening of big-city identity and institutions. The strongest example within the United Kingdom, if not Europe as a whole, was the reinstatement of directly elected London-wide government in the spring of 2000. The prospects for metropolitan governance for England's six other agglomerations are less clear. This article originated in a comparative research project on the spatial politics of European metropolitan areas. It offers a perspective on Greater Manchester, tracking institutional developments at city and regional scale since the abolition of its upper-tier council in 1986, and assessing the prospects of metropolitan renaissance
In 1997-98 the artless slogan 'Great Britain, Greater Manchester ... we're up and going' made its appearance on buses and billboards. Propaganda for metropolitan consciousness in NorthWest England echoed a widely observed contemporary trend towards a strengthening of big-city identity and institutions. The strongest example within the United Kingdom, if not Europe as a whole, was the reinstatement of directly elected London-wide government in the spring of 2000. The prospects for metropolitan governance for England's six other agglomerations are less clear. This article originated in a comparative research project on the spatial politics of European metropolitan areas. It offers a perspective on Greater Manchester, tracking institutional developments at city and regional scale since the abolition of its upper-tier council in 1986, and assessing the prospects of metropolitan renaissance
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