1. The document discusses how changing state institutions and geography can influence urban regeneration strategies and policies through the Strategic Relational Approach. 2. It explains that state institutions are permeable to certain social and political forces operating at certain scales and this influences the strategies and "objects of governance" that emerge. 3. The strategies and interventions pursued are shaped by interactions between changing state structures and local political strategies, as well as new "spatial imaginaries" about which economic and social spaces are amenable to governance.