Making competitive cities / edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musterd, Sako.

Murie, Alan.

Series:

Real Estate Issues

Real Estate Issues ; v.38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Community development, Urban.

Urban policy.

Urban economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, IA : Blackwell, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate ""creative knowledge"" cities. The editors compare the socio-economic developments, experiences and strategies in 13 urban regions across Europe: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Milan

Contents:

Making Competitive Cities; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Making Competitive Cities: Debates and Challenges; 2 The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City; PART II: PATHWAYS; 3 Pathways in Europe; 4 Stable Trajectories Towards the Creative Knowledge City? Amsterdam, Munich and Milan; 5 Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and Dublin; 6 Institutional Change and New Development Paths: Budapest, Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia; 7 Changing Specialisations and Single Sector Dominance: Helsinki and Toulouse; PART III: ACTORS

8 What Works for Managers and Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries?9 Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative and Knowledge-Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location? Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia; 10 Transnational Migrants in the Creative Knowledge Industries: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin and Munich; 11 Attracting Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona; 12 Working on the Edge? Creative Jobs in Birmingham, Leipzig and Poznan; PART IV: POLICIES; 13 What Policies Should Cities Adopt?

14 Strategic Economic Policy: Milan, Dublin and Toulouse15 Beyond Cluster Policy? Birmingham, Poznan and Helsinki; 16 Policies for Firms or Policies for Individuals? Amsterdam, Munich and Budapest; 17 New Governance, New Geographic Scales, New Institutional Settings; PART V: SYNTHESIS; 18 Synthesis: Re-making the Competitive City; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-20483-5

9786613204837

1-4443-2378-4

OCLC:

630541184