Musterd / Kovacs / Kovács Place-making and Policies for Competitive Cities

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-55445-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

Urban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen theeconomic competitiveness of their cities. Currently, they do thatmainly in the field of the creative knowledge economy - arts,media, entertainment, creative business services, architecture,publishing, design; and ICT, R&D, finance, and law. This bookis about the policies that help to realise such objectives:policies driven by classic location theory, cluster policies,'creative class' policies aimed at attracting talent,as well as policies that connect to pathways, place and personalnetworks.
The experiences and policy strategies of 13 city-regions acrossEurope have been investigated: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham,Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Milan, Munich, Poznan, Riga,Sofia and Toulouse. All have different histories and roles: capitalcities and secondary cities; cities with different economies andindustries; port-based cities and land-locked cities. And all 13have different cultural, political and welfare state traditions.Through this wide set of contexts, Place-making and Policies forCompetitive Citiescontributes to the debate about thedevelopment of creative knowledge cities, their economic growth andcompetitiveness and advocates the development of context-sensitivetailored approaches. Chapter authors from the 13 European citiesrigorously evaluate, reformulate and test assumptions behind oldand new policies.
This solidly-grounded and policy-focused study on the urbanpolicy of place-making highlights practices for different contextsin managing knowledge-intensive cities and, by drawing on thevaried experiences from across Europe, it establishes thestate-of-the-art for both academic and policy debates in afast-moving field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Musterd, Sako

Kovacs, Zoltan

Kovács, Zoltán

Über Autor(innen)

Sako Musterd is Professor of Urban Geography at the Centrefor Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam.
Zoltán Kovács is Scientific Advisor at theInstitute of Geography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professorin Human Geography at the University of Szeged