Place–making and Policies for Competitive Cities Musterd Hardback 9780470675038

Place-making and Policies for Competitive CitiesAuthor(s): Sako Musterd, Zoltn Kovcs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780470675038, 978-0470675038\nSynopsis\nUrban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen the economic competitiveness of their cities. Currently, they do that mainly in the field of the creative knowledge economy - arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architecture, publishing, design; and ICT, R, finance, and law. This book is about the policies that help to realise such objectives: policies driven by classic location theory, cluster policies, creative class policies aimed at attracting talent, as well as policies that connect to pathways, place and personal networks.\n\n The experiences and policy strategies of 13 city-regions across Europe have been investigated: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Milan, Munich, Poznan, Riga, So.