Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'New Economic Space'

This paper presents an empirical analysis about the position new economic geography plays in economics. In a theoretical review we discuss recent developments in economics, like new trade theory, endogenous growth theory, and new economic geography and analyze their implications for spatial structure. The paper presents the basic components of these theories and points out their commonalties. This shows that all these theories are based on assumptions that lead to spatial structure, i.e. differences in the spatial allocation of economic activities. In the empirical investigation we use the Social Science Citation Index to analyze citations of seminal contributions in various types of journals and the rate with which geographical content appears in economic journals. As we show, spatial topics still play only a marginal role in economics. Economists it seems are still reluctant to accept the spatial implications of their own theoretical models.
Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

The return of Māori land to a productive role in the New Economy entails the innovation and diffusion of technologies relevant to the sustainable development of this land. Sustainable development requires substantive changes to current land and resource use to mitigate environmental degradation and contribute to ecological and sociological resilience. Such innovation is emerging in 'New Economic Space' where concerns for cultural resilience have arisen as political-economic strategies of the New Economy converge within a global economic space. New Economic Space comprises policy, technology and institutional innovations that attempt to influence economic activity, thus directly engaging with local 'place-based' expressions of geohistorically unique knowledge and identity. This thesis approaches contemporary Māori development from three perspectives. First, by viewing the changing links between ecosystems and communities as examples of innovation diffusion, the evolution of relevant policies, technologies and institutions can be examined for their impact upon Māori resilience. Second, such innovation diffusion can be described as a form of regional development, acknowledging the integral role of traditional territories in Māori identity and culture as well as the distinct legislative and governance contexts by which this land is developed. Third, by incorporating the geohistorical uniqueness of Māori ideas, values and beliefs, standard concepts of political-economy can be reformulated to show an explicit cultural economy – Māori Traditional Economic Space – in which Māori horticulturalists participate in parallel with the New Economy. Two methods are used in the analysis of the participation by Māori horticulturalists in New Economic Space. Fuzzy set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) allows the rigorous investigation of small-N studies of limited diversity for their partial membership in nominated sets. This thesis uses fs/QCA to organise theoretical and substantive knowledge of each case study to score its membership in agri-food networks, Māori institutions and post-production strategies, allowing the identification of causal configurations that lead to greater resilience for Māori growers and their communities. The second method is Actor-Network Theory (ANT) that incorporates elements of nature and society, showing the extensive and dynamic entwinement that exists between the two. ANT describes the enrolment of diverse 'actants' by a range of eco-social institutions and the subsequent translation of the resulting assemblages into resilience strategies. The results of this research first show a 'System of Provision' (SOP) in which Māori development strategies converge with non-Māori attempts to expand research and marketing programmes. These programmes seek to implement added-value strategies in supplying novel horticultural products within New Economic Space; parallel 'cultural logics' ensure food is supplied to traditional Māori institutions according to the cultural logics of Māori. In addition to this finding, results also show that the participation of Māori growers in New Economic Space can paradoxically lead to an expansion of the Traditional Economic Space of Māori. This expansion is not simply contingent upon configurations of policy, technology, and institutional innovations that originate in New Economic Space but is directed by Māori cultural logics, located in Māori territories but seeking innovations from an amorphous universal 'core'. The interface between the global New Economy and the localities of a Māori cultural economy is defined by the 'interrogation' of these innovations, and innovators, through eco-cultural institutions in their diffusion to and from Māori land, Māori resources and Māori people. Within the boundaries of this interrogation border resides a malleable assemblage of actants, enrolled by Māori as components of resilience strategies, which can lead to the endurance of Māori culture.

Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 68).
In 1991, four Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) decided to form a political alliance called the Visegrad Group to explore paths of cooperation in various domains. Since the fall of communism, these countries have followed a formidable development trajectory that culminated with their integration in the European Union in 2004. In this thesis, we approach this region using a new macroeconomic theory that provides a framework to evaluate the complexity of economies and their productive structures. After analyzing trade data at a world level we find that V4 countries have complex economic structures. They also demonstrate a high level of robustness as they maintain consistent Economic Complexity Rankings when we vary the theory's underlying assumptions. We show that V4 countries have acquired capabilities relevant to many sectors, which provides them with numerous development opportunities. Based on those findings, we suggest policy recommendations leading both to stronger regional integration and to the creation of a more attractive business environment.
by Kalman de Chalendar and Marc Giraud.
S.M. in Management Studies

viii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.)
During the early stage of Japan's High Economic Growth Period (1955-1970), a group of directors and films, labeled the Japanese New Wave, emerged to strong critical acclaim and scholarly pursuit. Over time, Japanese New Wave Cinema has come to occupy a central position within the narrative history of Japanese film studies. This position has helped introduce many significant films while inadvertently ostracizing or ignoring the much broader landscape of film at this time. This thesis seeks to complexify the New Wave's central position through the career of Daiei Studios' director, Masumura Yasuzo. Masumura signifies a "space in-between" the cultural elite represented by the New Wave and the box office focus of mass culture cinema. Utilizing available English language and rare Japanese sources, this thesis will re-examine Masumura's position on the periphery of film studies while highlighting the larger film environment of this dynamic period.
Committee in charge: Prof. Steven Brown, Chair; Dr. Daisuke Miyao, Advisor

This exploratory dissertation examines governmental influences during the ongoing emergence of NewSpace, which is a community of private, entrepreneurial organizations pursuing space-related business opportunities outside of the traditional NASA-Military-Industrial complex model.

While recent research has provided significant insights into how organizations, populations and communities emerge, our understanding of the influence of government in this process has been minimal. Since government is the single most important actor in the modern economy, correcting this oversight is crucial to any modeling of community emergence. As emerging communities are lacking in traditional quantitative data, and the goals of this research are exploratory rather than theory testing, an inductive, qualitative methodology is utilized. The first step towards understanding governmental influence during the emergence of a new community is documenting exactly what the government does in this environment. Chapter IV uses grounded theory methodology to produce a Taxonomy of Governmental Roles in the Emergence of High-Technology Communities. The question of whether government facilitates the creation of new industries - or whether entrepreneurs manipulate government - is of critical importance to researchers of entrepreneurship and policy. Chapter V uses historical analysis to consider the causal role of government in the establishment of the environment in which this new community of organizations is emerging. Institutional legitimacy is crucial to the survival of entrepreneurial firms as well as to new populations and communities. Chapter VI considers the government's key role as legitimizer, and proposes a theoretical model for the process of legitimacy transfer from governmental agencies to entrepreneurial firms, populations and communities.

This dissertation makes contributions to the literatures of organizational evolution, community emergence, institutional theory, entrepreneurship and policy. It offers researchers a framework to better model governmental influence. It also provides entrepreneurs with a holistic view of governmental influence on their environments and offers governmental actors a fuller understanding of the impact that their legislation and enforcement activities have on new organizations and industries.

This thesis introduces and explores a novel construct for studying human beliefs in social science: doxastic spaces. These flexible analytical devices are demonstrated as capturing three key properties of beliefs which are difficult to depict through other formats: the relational, relative, and reflexive properties of beliefs. The doxastic-space paradigm developed by this thesis is likewise shown to enable new and insightful theories about belief formation and change. Two such theories cultivated herein are quantized evidence theory (QET) and entropy-based social learning (EBSL). These theories prioritise not only the evidential bases of beliefs, but also the cognitive limitations on memory and attention that people face in constructing and updating beliefs about their worlds. Such bases and limitations underscore not only the role that context has to play in sculpting beliefs, but also the reciprocal function of beliefs in helping to determine and demarcate context. Part of that context is discussed as being other people relevant in social judgment and learning situations. And interplay between beliefs and context is used to aid explanation for unstable tendencies in neglectful cognition. The work mixes theoretical and empirical investigation of the doxastic-space framework, and suggests that it may serve social science by working to not only forge deeper comprehension of belief dynamics but also to operate as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange.

New Public Management (NPM) – a global administrative discourse – has been controversial in its intentions, implications, and outcomes. It has been the focus of lively academic, political, and public debate, and has been subjected to extensive academic scrutiny over the last few decades. However, 'spatial analyses' of its global–national political implications remain underdeveloped. Thus, the purpose of the present thesis is to investigate the spatial politics of NPM as a global hegemonic discourse, by exploring its emergence, evolution, and current role in the dynamics of global capitalism and governance. The work examines the processes, technologies, and techniques through which governable spaces of governance have been constructed by NPM discourse. In terms of methodology, a critical discourse analysis is undertaken here of OECD annual reports from 1978 to 2011, as well as other OECD 'texts' that propagate NPM discourse. In terms of theory, the thesis draws on Foucault's notions of governmentality, disciplinary power, biopolitics, and heterotopia. The thesis concludes that NPM discourse creates a heterotopian textual space. It constructs a transnational governing space that is biopolitically governed through the exercise of specific heterotopic practices. Through the deployment of NPM discourse, neoliberal subjects have been constructed, and neoliberal governmentality has become transnational. This has transpired because NPM discourse operates as an interplay between heterotopias of deviation and heterotopias of compensation. Using a set of textual practices of compensation and deviation, NPM (re)constructs a utopia of neoliberalism, where NPM deviates and compensates not only national governments and their populations but also individual public organisations at the national and transnational levels. Through such deviation and compensation strategies, neoliberalism is perpetually (re)produced as an ideal type. To this end, various institutional technologies and techniques of differentiation, surveillance, and compensation/normalisation are deployed.

Estabelecendo similaridades entre fenômenos culturais populares-urbanos emergidos em uma metrópole mundial (Nova York), e em uma metrópole periférica brasileira (Salvador), que se estabelecem a partir de semelhantes relações com a cidade, com a indústria cultural, e com dados políticos e econômicos, procura compreender dinâmicas presentes na produção cultural do atual estágio do capitalismo, caracterizada pela orientação da cultura para a produção de mercadorias. Sendo assim, propõe um estudo comparativo, em que o conteúdo estético é deixado em parênteses, em favor de análises de efeitos materiais, sociais e econômicos, apresentando-se também como uma tentativa de compreensão de lógicas existentes em outras manifestações culturais contemporâneas, além de se apresentar como uma contribuição para reflexões sobre possíveis vínculos entre Arte, Cultura e Cidade.
Establishing similarities between popular-urban cultural phenomena emerging in a world metropolis (New York), and a peripheral Brazilian metropolis (Salvador), which establishes from similar relations with the city, with the cultural industry, and with political and economic data, aims to understand cultural dynamics present in current stage production of capitalism, characterized by the guidance of culture for the production of goods. Therefore, it proposes a comparative study, in which the aesthetic content is left in parentheses, in favor of analysis of material, social and economic effects, as well as an attempt of understanding existing logic in other cultural contemporary events, in addition to performing as a contribution to reflections on possible links between Art, Culture and City.

Cette thèse se propose d'étudier le lien existant entre les lieux et les sites naturels d'une part, les modèles de cité de l'autre. Le contexte analysé est celui des villes de fondation, c'est-à-dire des villes planifiées et créées en un temps court, totalement constituées, résultant de modèles formels complets et le plus souvent engendrées par un pouvoir centralisé ou une décision concentrée. Dans l'histoire des villes, on peut dire que les villes de fondation réalisées les plus importantes sont les villes idéales grecques, les villes romaines, les villes royales, les villes coloniales européennes, les villes de l'industrie. Au XXe siècle les occasions de créer des ensembles urbains se raréfient au profit de l'extension. Toutefois plusieurs pays ont procédé à des créations des villes de tertiaire : le Brésil avec Brasilia, l'Inde avec Chandigarh et Navi Mumbai (New Bombay), la Chine avec Shenzhen, la Grande-Bretagne avec les New Towns comme c'est le cas de Milton Keynes, la France avec les Villes Nouvelles, dont Marne-la-Vallée ou encore La Grande-Motte. L'imaginaire et les outils de projet se sont par ailleurs nourries d'un important corpus de villes théoriques ou utopiques (de Fourrier à Le Corbusier en passant par Arturo Soria y Mata) et de villes littéraires, le texte le plus célèbre restant Les Villes Invisibles d'Italo Calvino. La fabrication des villes de fondation est toujours une actualité à nos jours. On a assisté récemment à l'achèvement aux nouvelles capitales de la Birmanie et de la Malaisie, tandis que la fabrication de la nouvelle capitale pour la Corée du Sud a dépassé la phase du projet pour entrer dans celle de la réalisation. La question d'une nouvelle capitale de l'Indonésie se pose actuellement dans l'urgence. Cette recherche établira donc la genèse des villes de fondation, en particulier des modèles préexistants qui la sous-tendent : une attention sera portée sur le moment, les acteurs, les contextes de la décision de création, l'autre sera la relation entre la forme de la ville projetée, les données du site, de la société, des fonctions du lieu d'implantation, la réalisation effective pour mettre en évidence la prise en compte ou la non-prise en compte de ces contextes. Au terme de ce travail, on peut affirmer que les villes de fondation et la fabrication des villes de fondation sont un phénomène universel, qui se manifeste tout au long de l'histoire, à travers toutes les époques, en toutes aires géographiques. Y a-t-il alors une structure dans le processus de production qui soit commune à tous les types de villes de fondation, dans laquelle se nouerait un lien structurel entre les trois paramètres de la fabrication : les lieux, les modèles et les acteurs. Après un parcours dans l'histoire longue, à partir d'ouvrages existants, documentant les principales civilisations ayant produit des villes de fondation, la recherche portera sur un échantillon de villes du XXe siècle, en particulière les villes de tertiaire d'après-guerre : Brasilia (Brésil), Chandigarh (Inde), Marne la Vallée, La Grande Motte (France), Milton Keynes (Angleterre), et la ville de l'industrie, Magnitogorsk (U.R.S.S.)

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Esse trabalho apresenta análise combinada entre a macroeconomia e a estrutura a termo das taxas de juros, através de duas modelagens distintas. Primeiramente, utiliza-se o modelo Novo Keynesiano de pequeno porte, que é combinado com o modelo dinâmico de Nelson-Siegel. Em seguida estima-se o modelo dinâmico de Nelson-Siegel integrado com variáveis macroeconômicas. São empregados dados mensais referentes aos contratos futuros de DI, de Setembro de 2002 a Dezembro de 2017. A comparação das modelagens mostra que o modelo combinado apresenta resultados mais consistentes do que o modelo integrado.
This paper aims to present a combined analysis between macroeconomics and the term structure of interest rates, through two different models. Firstly, a small New Keynesian model is used, which is combined with the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model. Then the NelsonSiegel dynamic model integrated with macroeconomic variables is estimated. Monthly data on DI futures contracts are used from September 2002 to December 2017. Comparison of modeling shows that the combined model presents more consistent results than the integrated model.

This research uses the recent development of bus rapid transit (BRT) on Cleveland, Ohio’s Euclid Avenue corridor as a case-study to explore the links between public transit, public space, and urban planning. Using Fredric Jameson’s (1981) method of textual analysis from The Political Unconscious, I explore the ways the BRT provides access to a buried class consciousness in the city as well as a “symbolic resolution” between conflicting agendas of development and equity. Contextualizing the new spaces of the BRT using a synthesis of Jameson’s (1984) theorization of postmodernism, Mike Davis’ (1990) militarization of public space, and Michel de Certeau’s (1984) spatial practices, I discuss the ways these spaces are remade by individual users as a vital public space despite the BRT’s embedded market ideology and repressive security apparatus. Additionally, I explore what BRT’s ‘ideology of form’ can tell us about the ideology of the dominant paradigm of planning today, New Urbanism, and use it as departure for a closing discussion of Utopian desires in planning.
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Coastal regions of British Columbia are presently undergoing a period of dramatic economic restructuring. The roots of this crisis lie in the environmental and economic exhaustion of Fordist systems for resource production that have dominated B.C.’s rural economy since the Second World War. This thesis argues that current responses to this crisis--as undertaken by governments, corporate actors, communities, and local firms--are resulting in a fundamental restructuring of economic spaces in coastal British Columbia. I argue that senior governments are responding to the crisis in rural economies in British Columbia by implementing separate development strategies for resource- and community-based economies that are based on different visions of how these relate to global (Post-Fordist) economies. On the one hand, new reforms have recently been implemented to spatially liberalize resource economies--allowing major corporate actors significantly more freedom to manipulate geographies of resource production according to global market conditions. On the other hand, senior governments are implementing new ’entrepreneurialist’ programs in the local spaces of community-based economies--encouraging local groups and firms to pursue new types of connections to broader markets based on local capacities. The segregation of resource- and community-based economies is fundamentally altering local economic spaces and practices. This thesis advances detailed research from two case communities on the British Columbian coast--Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island, and Bella Coola on B.C.’s rugged central coast--to address how local economic spaces are being restructured both by institutional actors (state and corporate actors) and by community-based actors (local groups and firms). The withdrawal of corporate actors from the local economies of these communities places many local firms in a very tenuous position, where survival depends on successful connection and engagement with broader (global) markets and spaces. Drawing on interview research in the case communities, I develop and apply a schema for understanding how local actors attempt to participate in the global economy from positions of geographic marginality. This schema, which is based on the analysis of how local actors attempt to ’reach across space’ by negotiating socio-technical network arrangements (which I term "performances of distance"), uncovers new opportunities and inequalities confronting local actors in the new spatial economies of coastal British Columbia.
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Considering the surgeincommercial downstreamactivityinspace, an academypromoting theprofessional development of entrepreneurs and managers involved in space businesses combined with research on business-related aspects of industries and firms employing space technology,isan attractive opportunity to explore.In-depth qualitative interviews with representatives from the academy’s founding universitiesand industry experts reveal great potential forboth teaching and research.Teaching activities should commence on executiveeducationlevel beforeincorporatingunder-and postgraduate programs. Likewise, ESBA’sintendedresearchin form of a holistic database, which maps all actors operating in the European spaceindustry,will allow to better representtheactualeconomic value that originatesfrom initial space investments.Keywords

Research report submitted to the school of Architecture and planning University of the Witwatersrand in fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Architecture (Professional)
The condition of the black people in the South African situation at present, is my concern. In spite of political changes, certain conditions persist: racism, with its problems of elitism and exclusion, and the debilitating poverty which continues to be reflected in the township economy. This dissertation addresses the conditions under which the black people are living in the townships. These people have a growing political awareness and need to engage with issues of the use of architectural space and economic theories which would improve living conditions. We will consider the lessons learnt through this heuristic analysis. Racial space, racism and discrimination as it is revealed through the allocation of places itself within that space, so affecting the environmental psychology, and the identity of the people: the people’s psyche, agency and self-esteem. As spatial practitioners we must respond in a way to counter-act this exclusion, through the re-interpretation of the environment on the assumption that this should inform the nature of the space. And by so doing, we are addressing the fundamental relationship between racial exclusion and wealth and ownership. This is at the core of the problems we are facing in our society, problems which need to be ratified to avoid this situation of inequality. Here I try to investigate the racial question, relating it back to the problem of exclusion, focusing on the racially-based distribution of space. I propose that the nature of those spaces should be revised, leading to a new ‘dawn’: a spatial revolution brought about by Ubonics – a search for the economics of Ubuntu through a more inclusive architecture related to economic practice. Townships are an evident physical manifestation of spatial and economic inequality in South Africa. Located on the fringes of the traditial urban economies, townships are plagued by underdevelopment and a heightened activity in informal enterprise which can be a solution to a problem in a context of exclusion . The abundance of ‘informal’ enterprise activity is not beneficial as it tends to perpetuate underdevelopment because of an inherent low productivity, distribution problems and an inability to link with formal markets. There are diverse activities represented in the informal sector. In this study we examine the informal and formal sectors in Tembisa, and the nature of their space, making a distinction between spaces that are problematic, and showing how they perpetuate inequalities. I have developed a framework for the classification of the informal enterprises in terms of the principles of semiotics, identifying the spatial enterprise characteristics. On the basis of a survey using a structured questionnaire, we then find out where and how people work, developing a programme for our building and also applying this framework. We also aim to identify the programme with spatial invention and design enterprises for the emergence of Modern Informal Enterprises (MIEs), with the intention of stimulating the local economy. Townships cannot achieve internally driven local economic revitalization without the presence of, or at least sufficient conditions to support, modernized and upscale informal enterprises. Strategies to support these new enterprises have been designed to revitalize the township economy and must be differentiated to suit the needs and constraints of the different categories of informal enterprise, by providing a possible way of managing this new system. How can space humanize people again? How can the spaces of economic exclusion be transformed into spaces of economic inclusion? How can the economy be more inclusive? Could Ubuntu be used as a tool to negotiate reconciliation? What if space is design, and reflects the spirit of Ubuntu? Preliminary results reveal a possible solution to the negative socialization of people within this space. I then propose the need to change the nature of space in order to facilitate a new dawn of spatial revolution brought about by the introduction of Ubonic spaces of inclusion. The economics of Ubuntu are investigated through an inclusive architecture related to economic practice. Our conclusion is that exclusionary economic space may be transformed into inclusive concept of Ubonics. This may be achieved by infusing Ubuntu into the economic environment. Following an in-depth multi-dimensional analysis of preliminary research results, a ‘manifesto’ design for the concept of a Ubonic inclusive socially interactive space in a more inclusive and humane manner will be presented.
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The following thesis elaborates on various issues in strategy: launch strategy (especially, market selection), and strategic positioning. This paper does so through a case study based on a new venture willing to establish itself in the market: Thot Insights. This start-up would strive to provide market research services to businesses operating in Africa. It would leverage on SMS technology to collect, store, process, and deliver consumer insights. The main goal of the case is to provide readers with the unique opportunity to develop an effective business strategy for a newly created company. At the same time, raise awareness about the challenges of decision making (with imperfect information) in emerging countries. The following case study does not intend to do the following: cover all 54 markets on the continent, yet it focuses on few markets deemed strategic. Then, this paper will not provide extensive details on the company’s business plan (such as the business model, financials, or the underlying collection method). Also, it does not plan to analyze competitors in each local market, but it will adopt a broader approach, that is to say, highlight the main competitors with an extensive geographical footprint Literature related to strategic positioning, blue ocean strategy, competition mapping, and indexing, was key in analyzing the strategic issues. This lead to the following set of recommendations: launch first into Nigeria, then, expand into Ghana. The second recommendation would be to start with a traditional offering, then, educate buyers about a new set of services.
Esta dissertação debruça-se sobre diversas questões estratégicas, nomeadamente: criação de uma nova estratégia para inserção no mercado e estratégia de posicionamento. Por conseguinte, esta dissertação consiste na criação de um caso de estudo baseado numa start-up que tenciona inserir-se no mercado: Thot Insights. Esta start-up irá fornecer serviços de pesquisa de mercado para negócios em África. Assim, irá apostar em mensagens para recolher, processar e fornecer visões do consumidor.O caso de estudo visa providenciar ao leitor a oportunidade de desenvolver uma estratégica de negócio para uma empresa recentemente criada. Também, aumentar a consciência face aos desafios do processo de tomada de decisão (com informação incompleta) em países emergentes.O presente caso estudo não tenciona desenvolver o seguinte: cobrir os 54 mercados do continente, no entanto está focado em alguns mercados considerados estratégicos. Porém, este caso de estudo não irá fazer uma extensa análise sobre o modelo de negócio da empresa (tais como modelo de negócio, informação financeira ou a principal fonte de recolha de informação). Também não tenciona analisar os concorrentes em cada mercado, mas irá adotar uma perspetiva mais alargada, ou seja, destacar os principais concorrentes de acordo com a posição geográfica.A literatura relacionada com o posicionamento estratégico, estratégia blue ocean, análise de concorrentes e classificação foi fundamental na análise das questões estratégicas. Tal conduz a um conjunto de recomendações: estabelecer primeiro na Nigéria e depois no Gana. A segunda recomendação de uma oferta e mais tarde educar os compradores acerca de um novo conjunto de serviços.

The urban governance literature is currently situated in the nexus of globalization and devolution. On the one hand, scholars are trying to understand the ways that globalization and neoliberalism impact the nation-state. On the other hand. scholars are trying to understand recent changes in urban governance. In New State Spaces: Urban governance and the rescaling of statehood, Neil Brenner tries to bring these two streams of analysis together. He claims that changes to the nation-state have subsequent implications for urban governance in face of capitalist globalization. Brenner bases his argument on examples drawn from Western Europe that span the 1970s to the present. This research investigates Brenner's account by exploring the application for the city of Vancouver and the development of the Greater Vancouver Economic Council. Through the use of a document review and interviews, it is demonstrated that Brenner's account fits at a broad level but falls short under closer scrutiny. Neither the timeline nor the emphasis on urban locational policies are applicable in the Vancouver case. While the neoliberal agenda is identifiable, I argue that local factors - old local places - have a critical impact on the trajectory of regional governance.