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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city / edited by Peter Karl Kresl (Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Bucknell University, US and Co-founder and Past President, Global Urban Competitiveness Project).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY
- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho
- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez
- 3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China / Shen Jianfa
- 4 In search of an innovation economic geography / Edward Blakely
- 5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urban resilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea / Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan Kim
- PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY
- 6 "Focused Research University"and "Matrix College": Incheon National University's strategies based on combination and permutation / Cho Dong-Sung
- 7 Human behavior and economic development: culture, psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson
- 8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? / Peter Karl Kresl
- 9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India / Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar
- 10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentration in Mexico, 1980-2015 / Jaime Sobrino
- 11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence of interactive cities 200/ Clemente Ruiz Durán
- 12 Mexican cities' innovative industry and competitiveness in the age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 / Isela Orihuela
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781839107481
- 1839107480
- Publisher Number:
- 40030397612
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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