Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city
"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 illumin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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