ABSTRACT
One of the most interesting, but also contentious, aspects of the spatial distribution of the UK’s share of the Structural Funds for the 1994–1999 period, as well as the 1993 changes to the UK Government’s map of regional aid, has been the decision to give assistance, for the first time, to part of London. This marks a recognition of the fact that the consequences of de-industrialisation are not concentrated solely in the former industrial regions of northern England, Scotland and Wales but have also become increasingly evident within those areas which formed the production base of the capital city. It is also an indication that the increasingly uneven pattern of economic change at the intra-regional as well as the inter-regional scale, which has been demonstrated in recent national level research (e.g. Townsend 1993; Champion and Green 1992) as well as research on particular regions such as the South East (e.g. Allen 1992), is beginning to be taken on board by politicians and policy makers at both national and European levels.
