ABSTRACT
The making of a low carbon Greater London 1 is being produced by the relationships between the governing institutions of Greater London and their interaction with national government views of the city-region. Greater London occupies a prioritised role in national policy-making as an exemplar of national priorities. As the UK's sole world city, the role of London has been prioritised through national policy since the turn to place-based economic competition and the reprioritisation of a discourse of economic competitiveness in the 1980s. The Greater London Council (GLC) provided a leftist counterweight within Greater London to these pressures and their articulation by national government until its abolition in 1986. An institutionalised governing voice for Greater London again emerged following the GLA Act 1999 with the setting up of the Greater London Authority (GLA). The GLA as a strategic city-wide authority supports the work of an elected mayor, an elected assembly and a wider GLA group of four bodies: Transport for London (TfL), the London Development Agency (LDA), 2 London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) and the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
