Making Competitive Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Musterd, Sako; Murie, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Special Features: * Analyses link between knowledge-intensive sectors and urban competitiveness * Offers evidence from 13 European urban regions drawn from a major research project * Establishes a new benchmark for academic and policy debates in a fast-moving field

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444390421
• Artikelnr.: 38306852

Autorenporträt

Sako Musterd, Professor of Urban Geography and Director of the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam Alan Murie, Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Professor Susan Fainstein, Harvard University Preface
Contributors PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Making Competitive Cities: Debates and
Challenges Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Debates and challenges Sectors
Questions and theories Regions and sources Pathways, actors and policies
References 2 The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City Sako Musterd
and Alan Murie Essential conditions for competitive cities 'Hard'
conditions theory Cluster theory Personal networks 'Soft' conditions theory
Three parts References PART II PATHWAYS 3 Pathways in Europe Denis Eckert,
Alan Murie and Sako Musterd Path dependency Initial expectations and
comparisons The chapters to come References 4 Stable Trajectories Towards
the Creative Knowledge City? Amsterdam, Munich and Milan Anne von Streit,
Marco Bontje and Elena dell'Agnese Introduction The economic base and the
creative knowledge economy Development path: roots and current conditions
of the creative knowledge economy Development paths: a synthesis and
conclusion References 5 Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and
Dublin Veronica Crossa, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Austin Barber
Introduction Historical context The trajectory of industrial development
The state and policy intervention The challenge of soft factors Conclusions
References 6 Institutional Change and New Development Paths: Budapest,
Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, Joachim Burdack and
Tamás Egedy Introduction Socio-economic characteristics of the study areas
Development pathways shaping the city profiles and the role of the systemic
change Determinants of development of the creative knowledge sector
Conclusions Acknowledgements References 7 Changing Specialisations and
Single Sector Dominance: Helsinki and Toulouse Hélène Martin-Brelot and
Kaisa Kepsu Introduction Setting the context - Helsinki and Toulouse
Pathways to knowledge-driven economies Knowledge driving economic
development: sciences, industries and policies Future challenges Conclusion
and discussion References PART III ACTORS 8 What Works for Managers and
Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries? Sako Musterd and
Alan Murie Introduction Three groups of actors and a range of conditions
The following chapters References 9 Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative
and Knowledge- Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location?
Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia Evgenii Dainov and Arnis Sauka
Introduction: places matter Cities and the creative class: major conceptual
challenges Characteristics of the cities: a brief overview Location
decisions: 'individual trajectory' considerations and 'hard' factors
Location decisions: the role of 'soft' factors In-city location decisions
Capital city versus provincial city location decisions Policymaking:
'soft', 'hard' or 'other'? Conclusions and implications Acknowledgement
References 10 Transnational Migrants in the Creative Knowledge Industries:
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin and Munich Heike Pethe, Sabine Hafner and
Philip Lawton Introduction Conceptualising transnational migrants and the
creative class Places and potentials The attractiveness of European
metropolitan regions Conclusion Acknowledgments References 11 Attracting
Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona Montserrat
Pareja-Eastaway, Marco Bontje and Marianne d'Ovidio Introduction Competing
for young, highly skilled workers Young and highly-skilled workers in
European cities The Amsterdam, Barcelona and Milan city-regions Conclusions
References 12 Working on the Edge? Creative Jobs in Birmingham, Leipzig and
Poznan Julie Brown, Robert Nadler and Michal Meczynski Introduction:
creative work - precariousness, uncertainty and risk? Methodology Insecure,
casualised or long-term, sustainable employment? Discussion Conclusions
References PART IV POLICIES 13 What Policies Should Cities Adopt? Alan
Murie and Sako Musterd Introduction What should cities do? European cities
Which policy agendas? Networking policy The following chapters References
14 Strategic Economic Policy: Milan, Dublin and Toulouse Silvia Mugnano,
Enda Murphy and Hélène Martin-Brelot Introduction Distinctive policy
traditions Existing strengths in creative knowledge policy New strategic
economic policy approaches Key actors in entrepreneurial cities Addressing
barriers and obstacles Conclusion and new challenges References 15 Beyond
Cluster Policy? Birmingham, Poznan and Helsinki Caroline Chapain, Krzysztof
Stachowiak and Mari Vaattovaarra Introduction The cluster policy paradigm
The state of the creative and knowledge economy Supporting the creative and
knowledge economy: three approaches Conclusions Acknowledgments References
16 Policies for Firms or Policies for Individuals? Amsterdam, Munich and
Budapest Zoltán Kovács, Heike Pethe and Manfred Miosga Introduction Do
policies help in competition? - a theoretical framework Economic
development and political conditions The creative and knowledge sector and
policies enhancing its development Conclusions References 17 New
Governance, New Geographic Scales, New Institutional Settings Bastian
Lange, Marc Pradel i Miquel and Vassil Garnizov Introduction Conceptual
prerequisites: understanding governance in creative and knowledge
industries New governance dimensions Professionalisation - self-regulation
and self-governance of new professions Towards new geographical scales?
Governance approaches in Barcelona, Leipzig and Sofia Knowledge-intensive
industries in regard to governance perspectives Conclusions
Acknowledgements References PART V SYNTHESIS 18 Synthesis: Re-making the
Competitive City Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Introduction A city is not a
T-shirt Multi-layered cities: the importance of pathways Personal actor
networks: key conditions New governance approaches Conclusion References
Index

Rezensionen

"Making Competitive Cities is therefore a stimulating read, persuasive and provocative in its lines of argument, and presenting an important challenge to urban political praxis the world over." (Journal of Economic Geography, 19 August 2011)

"The strength of Making Competitive Cities is its highly structured, data-driven research on thirteen diverse and widely scattered cities, which facilitates comparative study and the construction of useful generalizations. The informative individual chapters follow parallel structures and are all well prepared." (Association of American Geographers, 14 March 2011)

"This collection of essays utilizes comparative case studies to illustrate the challenges cities face from a shifting global economy and the very different ways cities can change. The essays offer insights into the theoretical and practical understanding of the environments required to develop competitive "creative knowledge" cities, cities that are successful, exciting, and enjoyable places to live." (Book News Inc, November 2010)