Making competitive cities / edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie

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Publication details: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 360 pISBN:

9781405194150

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, Munich, Poznan, Riga, Sofia and Toulouse. These have different histories and roles; include capital and non-capital cities of different sizes; represent cities with different economic structures; and different cultural, political and welfare state traditions. Through this wide set of examples, Making Competitive Cities informs the debate about creative and knowledge-intensive industries, economic development, and competitiveness policies. It focuses on which metropolitan regions have a better chance to develop as "creative knowledge regions" and which do not, as well as investigating why this is so and what can policy do to influence change. Chapter authors from thirteen European institutions rigorously evaluate, reformulate and empirically test assumptions about cities and their potential for attracting creative and knowledge-intensive industries. As well as a systematic empirical comparison of developments related to these industries, the book examines the pathways that cities have followed and surveys both the negative and positive impacts of different prevailing conditions. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00458	Available		1900108230

Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- I. Introduction: 1. Making Competitive Cities: Debates and Challenges / Sako Musterd, Alan Murie ; 2. The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City / Sako Musterd, Alan Murie -- II. Pathways: 3. Pathways in Europe / Denis Eckert, Alan Murie, Sako Musterd ; 4. Stable Trajectories Towards the Creative Knowledge City? Amsterdam, Munich and Milan / Anne von Streit, Marco Bontje, Elena dell'Agnese ; 5. Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and Dublin / Veronica Crossa, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Austin Barber ; 6. Institutional Change and New Development Paths:Budapest, Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia / Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, Joachim Burdack, Tamás Egedy ; 7. Changing Specialisations and Single Sector Dominance: Helsinki and Toulouse / Hélène Martin-Brelot, Kaisa Kepsu -- III. Actors: 8. What Works for Managers and Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries? / Sako Musterd, Alan Murie ; 9. Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative and Knowledge-Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location? Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia / Evgenii Dainov, Arnis Sauka ; 10. Transnational Migrants in the Creative Knowledge Industries: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin and Munich / Heike Pethe, Sabine Hafner, Philip Lawton ; 11. Attracting Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona / Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Marco Bontje, Marianne d'Ovidio ; 12. Working on the Edge? Creative Jobs in Birmingham, Leipzig and Poznan / Julie Brown, Robert Nadler, Michal Meczynski -- IV. Policies: 13. What Policies Should Cities Adopt? / Alan Murie, Sako Musterd ; 14. Strategic Economic Policy: Milan, Dublin and Toulouse / Silvia Mugnano, Enda Murphy, Hélène Martin-Brelot ; 15. Beyond Cluster Policy? Birmingham, Poznan and Helsinki / Caroline Chapain, Krzysztof Stachowiak, Mari Vaattovaarra ; 16. Policies for Firms or Policies for Individuals? Amsterdam, Munich and Budapest / Zoltán Kovács, Heike Pethe, Manfred Miosga ; 17. New Governance, New Geographic Scales, New Institutional Settings / Bastian Lange, Marc Pradel i Mique, Vassil Garnizov -- V. Synthesis: 18. Synthesis: Re-making the Competitive City / Sako Musterd, Alan Murie

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