Abstract
A complex word in the city imaging literature is ‘regionality.’ The relationship between cities and regions is intricate and overlapping. Joel Matthews confronts this complex issue, exploring the specificity of Osaka. In an attempt to create an innovative and distinctive city imaging from Tokyo, Osaka politicians have opened out the economic, political and social spaces around Osaka, to create a city-region. Matthews probes the success of such reconfigurations of urbanity.
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Matthews, J. (2014). Osaka In and Out of the Nation: Neoliberal Spatial Gestures for the Globally Competitive City-Region. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay. GeoJournal Library, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9_18
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