Making competitive cities [electronic resource]
Language: English Publication details: Wiley-Blackwell 2010Description: eBookISBN:- 9781444323788
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Making Competitive Cities: Debates and Challenges -- The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City -- Pathways in Europe -- Stable Trajectories Towards the Creative Knowledge City? -- Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and Dublin -- Institutional Change and New Development Paths: Budapest, Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia -- Changing Specialisations and Single Sector Dominance -- What Works for Managers and Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries -- Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative and Knowledge-Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location? Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia -- Attracting Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona -- Working on the Edge? Creative Jobs in Birmingham, Leipzig and Poznan -- What Policies Should Cities Adopt? -- Strategic Economic Policy: Milan, Dublin and Toulouse -- Beyond Cluster Policy? Birmingham, Poznan and Helsinki -- Policies for Firms or Policies for Individuals? Amsterdam -- New Governance, New Geographic Scales, New Institutional Settings -- Synthesis: Re-making the Competitive City