Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness.Focusing on major cities in East Asia, North America, and Western Europe, Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City illuminates the ways in which cities differ not only in their course and stages of development, but in the nature of their economies and their administrative structures. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face, such as social cohesion, tolerance and cultural diversity, and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. These issues are explored in relation to contemporary topics including the growing economy of robotics, the rising importance and use of artificial intelligence and the information and communications economy.Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly, particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas. Its stimulating, yet accessible, approach to the topic and key case studies will also greatly benefit urban planners and economic policy makers looking to improve contemporary cities.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781839107474

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Contents:Introduction viiiPART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role oforganizing capacity and distributed leadership 2Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainableentrepreneurs and competitiveness 16Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38Shen Jianfa4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55Edward Blakely5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urbanresilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan KimPART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”:Incheon National University’s strategies based oncombination and permutation 90Cho Dong-Sung7 Human behavior and economic development: culture,psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147Peter Karl Kresl9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emergingeconomies: a case of urban India 160Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentrationin Mexico, 1980–2015 179Jaime Sobrino11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence ofinteractive cities 200Clemente Ruiz Durán12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness inthe age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223Isela OrihuelaIndex 241

'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.'