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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city / edited by Peter Karl Kresl (Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Bucknell University, US and Co-founder and Past President, Global Urban Competitiveness Project)

Kresl, Peter Karl, 1938- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Edward Elgar Publishing [Verlag]

Northampton ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Publishing [2020], [2020]

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 250 Seiten)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-83910-748-1 (e-book)

978-1-83910-747-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Nationallizenz)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Nationallizenz)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.4337/9781839107481

HT151

Basisklassifikation: 83.64 (Regionalwirtschaft) ; 74.72 (Stadtplanung; kommunale Planung) ; 71.14 (Städtische Gesellschaft)

*Nachhaltigkeit ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtsoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Sociology, Urban

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez -- 3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China / Shen Jianfa -- 4 In search of an innovation economic geography / Edward Blakely -- 5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urban resilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea / Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan Kim -- PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY -- 6 "Focused Research University"and "Matrix College": Incheon National University's strategies based on combination and permutation / Cho Dong-Sung -- 7 Human behavior and economic development: culture, psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson -- 8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? / Peter Karl Kresl -- 9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India / Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar -- 10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentration in Mexico, 1980-2015 / Jaime Sobrino -- 11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence of interactive cities 200/ Clemente Ruiz Durán -- 12 Mexican cities' innovative industry and competitiveness in the age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 / Isela Orihuela -- Index.

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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"--