Global economic crisis, austerity and neoliberal urban

The post-2008 global economic recession has had different spatial impacts as national and subnational economies are affected by and respond to economic downturn in a vari-ety of ways. Drawing on recent research on the two English Core Cities of Bristol and Liverpool this paper develops an integrated and multiscalar analysis to explore the dif-ferentiated impacts of the economic crisis on cities and public services. This analysis is located within the local policy contexts through which they are mediated, thus furthering our understanding of variegated neoliberal urban governance and the rescaling of cit-ies to draw out the ‘webs of interlocal and interorganizational relations ’ (Peck, J. an