Uneven regional development fomented by city-centric growth agendas generates significant challenges for regional peripheries. Placing regional margins and other plural geographies at the centre, in this article we apply a normative framework based on justice theory to uncover the dominance of urban viewpoints in urban regional development policy. Departing from Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional justice theory, we provide a deconstruction of city-centrism by illustrating how regional disparities in two regions in Sweden are not only reproduced by economic maldistribution but also by political misrepresentation and cultural misrecognition. By doing so, we illustrate the fruitfulness of applying a normative justice framework to create a broader understanding of factors that contribute to the political production of uneven regional development and need to be addressed if a transformative and progressive change is to occur.

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解构城市观点：用南希·弗雷泽的正义观探讨区域发展不平衡

以城市为中心的增长议程所引发的区域发展不平衡给区域外围带来了重大挑战。在本文中，我们以区域边缘和其他多元地理为中心，应用基于正义理论的规范框架来揭示城市观点在城市区域发展政策中的主导地位。与南希·弗雷泽的三维正义理论不同，我们通过说明瑞典两个地区的地区差异不仅是通过经济分配不均，而且通过政治歪曲和文化误认来再现的，从而对城市中心主义进行了解构。通过这样做，我们展示了应用规范性正义框架的成果，以更广泛地理解导致区域发展不平衡政治产生的因素，如果要发生变革性和进步性的变化，就需要解决这些因素。