TY - CHAP AB - © 2017 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. This chapter offers a critical theoretically informed and policy-relevant exploration of some of the most prevalent conceptual strands informing place-based development scholarship, discourse, and practice. In doing so, it examines the emphasis on co-operation, open governance, and the assumption that all places have the potential to grow and prosper. Further, it analyzes normative dispositions - namely that place-based modes of subnational development could represent a viable and progressive approach which reconciles pervasive tensions between economic growth and spatial equity. In the process, the chapter identifies four key conceptual strands that characterize place-based development theory and practice. AU - Gray, N AU - Pugalis, L DA - 2016/11/30 DO - 10.4018/978-1-5225-1645-3.ch002 EP - 53 JO - Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development PY - 2016/11/30 SP - 34 TI - Place-based subnational development: Unpacking some of the key conceptual strands and normative dispositions Y1 - 2016/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -