Making competitive cities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Ames, IA, : Blackwell, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/16094; 307.76
• Soggetto topico: City planning; Community development, Urban; Urban policy; Urban economics
• Altri autori: MusterdSako MurieAlan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Making competitive cities
• ISBN: 1-283-20483-5; 9786613204837; 1-4443-2378-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792330703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Real Estate Issues