European Cities in Competition
Published on 13. February 1997
Book
Hardback
546 pages
978-1-85628-610-7 (ISBN)
Description
Urban Europe is in the throes of change as the new global economy calls for a thorough restructuring. Manufacturing industries have lost their competitive edge and have been eclipsed by new acitvities in the service sector. The transition has posed a challenge to the cities. They have to adjust their economy to safeguard the welfare of their population. But promoting new activities has caused severe social inequalities to emerge. Entire categories of people are experiencing the hardship of exclusion from the new economy. In fact, the cities face a dilemma - the more vigorously they pursue economic efficiency, the greater their potential for loss of equity. This text argues that, in the long run, this may endanger their very ability to complete the transition. It also states that the cities need to limit the negative side-effects of their continuing development if they are to retain their attractiveness for the new economy and for the people that make it work.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
figures, tables, indexes
Dimensions
Height: 145 mm
Width: 224 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85628-610-7 (9781856286107)
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Content
Part 1 Concepts: competition between cities, urban performance and the role of urban policy - a theoretical framework, Chris Jensen-Butler; the set of cities, Loic Grasland and Chris Jensen-Butler. Part 2 City vignettes: Glasgow - the post-industrial city, William F. Lever; Paris - city of opposites, Guy Burgel; Geneva - urban policy in its infancy, Antoine S. Bailly; Lisbon - metropolis between centre and periphery, Jorge Gaspar; Barcelona - the olympic city, Joan-Eugeni Sanchez; Copenhagen - a redistributive city?, Sten Engelstoft and John Jfrgensen; Athens - intersubjective facets of urban performance, Lila Leontidou; Budapest - return to European competition, Gyorgy Enyedi; Milan - the failure of agency in the metropolis, Tomaso Pompili; Stockholm - welfare and well-being, Bo Wijkmark. Part 3 Policy fields: policies to improve the efficiency of urban areas, William F. Lever; urban policies to promote equity, Jan van Weesep; alternatives to the polluting city, Gert de Roo; competitive political and administrative systems, Joan-Eugeni Sanchez; marketing the city, Michael Krantz and Ludwig Schatzl; perspective - competition, urban planning and urban policy, Chris Jensen-Butler and Jan van Weesep.