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Curated Track: Economic Geography Specialty Group Highlights and Crisis, Inequality, and Left-Behind Places

Description:

In the context of regional development, uneven growth between places in the traditional Global North has been going on for more than four decades, and this “Great Divergence” shows no signs of reversal or even slowing down. Scholars in economic geography, urban and regional studies, and related fields have shown how economic dynamics and networks between groups of cities have different effects on city-regions within these networks, but also on those left out. Aside from connectivity effects and local growth fabrics, broader institutional settings seem to play a pivotal role. In recent years, a discussion of stagnant or even declining cities and regions has attracted academic attention, aiming to understand the multiple sources and facets of “left-behindness” and “disconnectedness”. This session aims to bring together conceptual and empirical papers that seek to advance our understanding of the differential effects or urban networks and connectivity on regional development in both the growing and the “left-behind” places, and how underlying economic factors interact with local contextual conditions to influence regions’ growth paths.

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