"Audiences judge a play, film or novel according to how it resonates with some aspects of human experience, although specialists may also be interested in the technical skills of its construction. A strategic spatial frame of reference for the governance of urban regions as imagined places, however skilled its technical construction, will have little legitimacy unless it too resonates, with people’s experience of daily life in urban places and their imagination of what being in a particular urban area means to them. Such a strategic play proceeds not by analytically smoothing out the messy complexity of urban life, but by calling it to mind in all its wondrous, frightening, routine, unexpected, comic and tragic manifestations …. The touchstone of judgements about the performance of a strategic play about place governance will be how well it resonates with the multiple, particular expereinece of that co-existence."

— Patsy Healy in Urban complexity and spatial strategies

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