{"product_id":"9781118554456","title":"Place-making and Policies for Competitive Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eUrban 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\u0026amp;D, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe experiences and policy strategies of 13 city-regions across Europe have been investigated: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Milan, Munich, Poznan, Riga, Sofia and Toulouse. All have different histories and roles: capital cities and secondary cities; cities with different economies and industries; port-based cities and land-locked cities. And all 13 have different cultural, political and welfare state traditions. Through this wide set of contexts, \u003ci\u003ePlace-making and Policies for Competitive Cities\u003c\/i\u003econtributes to the debate about the development of creative knowledge cities, their economic growth and competitiveness and advocates the development of context-sensitive tailored approaches. Chapter authors from the 13 European cities rigorously evaluate, reformulate and test assumptions behind old and new policies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis solidly-grounded and policy-focused study on the urban policy of place-making highlights practices for different contexts in managing knowledge-intensive cities and, by drawing on the varied experiences from across Europe, it establishes the state-of-the-art for both academic and policy debates in a fast-moving field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107259269360,"sku":"9781118554456","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118554456_p0.jpg?v=1769888855","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118554456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}