City-regionalism as a Politics of Collective Provision: Regional Transport Infrastructure in Denver, USA

The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mass transport infrastructure in the USA. It deploys...

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Published in:Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Scotland), 2014-08, Vol.51 (11), p.2444-2465
Main Authors: Jonas, Andrew E. G., Goetz, Andrew R., Bhattacharjee, Sutapa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobiles
Case studies
Commuters
Competition
Denver, Colorado
Economic development
Federal funding
Funding
Geopolitics
Governance
Government and politics
Infrastructure
Intervention
Landscape
Light rail transportation
Mass transit
Mayors
Metropolitan areas
Political behavior
Politics
Public Transportation
Rail lines
Rail transit
Railway transport
Regionalism
Sales taxes
Special issue articles
Territorial issues
Territories
Territory
Transportation
Transportation planning
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
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Summary:The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mass transport infrastructure in the USA. It deploys a case study of the Denver region, examining the state and governance structures driving forward FasTracks, a longterm project to expand the Denver Regional Transportation District's light and commuter rail system. FasTracks represents a programme to retrofit the Denver city-region for integrated mass transit but its funding has fostered tensions around new regionalist governance arrangements. The paper uses the findings of the case study to reflect upon the balance of bottom–up versus top–down geopolitical forces shaping the landscape of city-regionalism in the USA. It emphasises the variety of ways in which struggles around infrastructure provision shape the emergence of new city-regionalist structures inside the competition state.
ISSN:0042-0980
1360-063X
DOI:10.1177/0042098013493480