Durch die Internationalisierung und Globalisierung der wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen und Märkte, die westeuropäische Integration, die Öffnung der Grenzen nach Mittel- und Osteuropa sowie die deutsche Vereinigung hat sich die Standortkonkurrenz zwischen den Agglomerationsräumen erheblich und...

Gemeinden, Städte und Regionen sehen sich mit verschärfter internationaler Konkurrenz konfrontiert. Umwelt-, Verkehrs- und Versorgungsprobleme nehmen Ausmaße an, die von kommunaler Seite allein nicht mehr zu lösen sind. Hinzu treten zum Teil massive soziale Polarisierungstendenzen und ein...

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...

1. The urban context and the need for economic-strategic planning -- 2. The literature on urban competitiveness and strategic-economic planning -- 3. The economic and geographic analysis of urban competitiveness -- 4. The ten cities and their planning at the outset of the 1990s -- 5. How these...

Obwohl es ein weitverbreitetes Bewusstsein dafür gibt, dass Zeit(politik) ein expliziter Bestandteil städtischer Politik sein sollte, ist die Implementierung in die Praxis – trotz aller impliziten Bedeutung von zeitrelevanten Politiken – noch nicht sehr weit entwickelt. Das Thema...

This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...

This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization--that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed...

This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...