Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
本文分析了2008年全球金融危机后空间政策的演变，认为新自由主义危机导致的空间极化与不满情绪，促使政策转向实验性治理，但现有措施仅治标不治本，难以减少空间不平等。
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analysis of spatial policy since the crash, viewing this period as one of economic stagnation, instability and turbulence. It interprets recent reorientations of spatial policy involving the adoption of new strategies for ‘left-behind places’ as part of an ongoing process of regulatory experimentation seeking to address discontent and spatial polarisation as symptoms of the legitimacy crisis of late neoliberalism. Thus far, we argue, such policies tend to treat the symptoms of ‘left-behindness’, rather than addressing the wider structural causes of decline and marginalisation, meaning that they are unlikely to reduce spatial inequalities and assuage discontent.