دانلود کتاب Making Competitive Cities

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 & quot;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. Read more... Making Competitive Cities; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Making Competitive Cities: Debates and Challenges; 2 The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City; PART II: PATHWAYS; 3 Pathways in Europe; 4 Stable Trajectories Towards the Creative Knowledge City? Amsterdam, Munich and Milan; 5 Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and Dublin; 6 Institutional Change and New Development Paths: Budapest, Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia; 7 Changing Specialisations and Single Sector Dominance: Helsinki and Toulouse; PART III: ACTORS. 8 What Works for Managers and Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries?9 Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative and Knowledge-Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location? Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia; 10 Transnational Migrants in the Creative Knowledge Industries: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin and Munich; 11 Attracting Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona; 12 Working on the