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Manchester: Re-Inventing the Local–Global in the Peri-Urban City-Region

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Some of the most populous parts of England are neither urban nor rural, but somewhere in between: a new kind of peri-urban landscape emerging in the fringes and hinterlands of cities and city-regions. Such peri-urban areas reflect both a more networked, mobile, globalised society, and also one which increasingly values local character and quality of life. The Manchester city region is one of these areas, a poly-centric agglomeration of several large towns and cities, between which an extensive peri-urban zone flows, linking them together like a form of connective tissue.

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Acknowledgements

This is to say thanks for excellent contributions from Graham Joyce (Pennine Prospects), Tony Hothersall (Red Rose Forest): the Manchester research team, including at various times, John Handley, Sally Randles, Jeremy Carter, Nick Green; modelling work by Yi Gong and Chris Kenny; modelling advice from Hedwig van Delden and Jasper van Vliet (RIKS), with data from Olga Little (HCA); advice from Ian Wray (Liverpool University, formerly North West Development Agency) and Vince Goodstadt (RTPI Past President); the participants in the PLUREL workshops and interviews; the PLUREL Module 3 researchers, and the review by Steve Littlewood of CUDEM.

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  1. Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Joe Ravetz

  2. FRSAM, Chair of Pennine Prospects Ltd, Chair of the Forestry Commission Great Britain, Hampshire, UK

    Pam Warhurst (CBE)

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Ravetz, J., Warhurst, P. (2013). Manchester: Re-Inventing the Local–Global in the Peri-Urban City-Region. In: Nilsson, K., Pauleit, S., Bell, S., Aalbers, C., Sick Nielsen, T. (eds) Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30529-0_8

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