Regional governance and the challenge of managing socio- economic change
Ó Broin, DeiricORCID: 0000-0001-7569-6354
(2010)
Regional governance and the challenge of managing socio- economic change.
Journal of Irish Urban Studies, 7-9
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pp. 99-111.
ISSN 1649-1920
The primary purpose of the chapter is to examine the position of Dublin in a set of widely shared and influential ideas about the emergence of a new urban era in developed economies,
and on the particular governance challenges facing Dublin. The chapter itself is broken into
six parts. The fist provides a brief introduction to the concept of a ‘New Conventional
Wisdom’ (Gordon and Buck 2005: 5) about cities and city regions1
and the impact of this
new paradigm on public policy discourse (section 2).2
This is followed by a short review of
three key components of the New Conventional Wisdom: competitiveness and competition
(section 3), social cohesion (section 4), and urban governance (section 5). Section 6 examines
the situation of Dublin within the New Conventional Wisdom paradigm. The final part
discusses the potential governance arrangements for Dublin as a consolidating city-region in
what is, and is likely to remain, a very open economy (Smith, 2005: 150).