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SUMMARY:Fast track to the North?  HS2 and the politics of regional develop
 ment in the UK - Professor John Tomaney\, UCL
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CONTACT:Joanna Laver
DESCRIPTION:The UK government proposes to spend £42.6 billion on a new ra
 ilway line linking London with cities in northern England. Among the sever
 al claims made for the impact of this line is its potential to “reshape 
 the economic geography of the UK”. Yet as the government has developed i
 ts plan for HS2\, public opinion has swung strongly against the proposal. 
 This presentation examines the process by which HS2 became a cross-party r
 egional development priority in the UK and why it has been accompanied by 
 growing scepticism. It pays critical attention to the political uses made 
 of research\, analysis and evidence in the case for high speed rail. Shoul
 d the HS2 proposal be regarded as a product of “group think” or an exa
 mple of Albert Hirschman’s “Hiding Hand”?\n\nJohn Tomaney is a Profe
 ssor at University College London where he teaches Urban and Regional Plan
 ning in the Bartlett School of Planning. Previously he was Henry Daysh Pro
 fessor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Re
 gional Development Studies (CURDS)\, Newcastle University. He is an Adjunc
 t Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at M
 onash University\, Melbourne\; Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Faculty
  of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales\, Sydney\; 
 Visiting Professor in CURDS\, Newcastle University\; and is an Academician
  of the Academy of Social Science (UK). He is a Fellow of the Regional Aus
 tralia Institute.  Among his publications are Local and Regional Developme
 nt (Routledge\, 2006) and Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Rout
 ledge 2011) both co-authored with Andy Pike and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 7
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