Making competitive cities

edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie

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, Mu

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Year of publication:	c2010
Other Persons:	Murie, Alan (contributor) ; Musterd, Sako (contributor)
Publisher:	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K : Blackwell
Subject:	Stadtentwicklung \| Urban development \| Stadtökonomik \| Urban economics
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xv, 360 p)
Series:	Real Estate Issues ; v.38
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-4051-9415-0 ; 978-1-4051-9415-0
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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