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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 ""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, Milan
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The changing spatial organization of the city of Amsterdam reflects a larger-scale process: the familiar shape of Western cities is changing across the globe. For centuries, the urban core was taken for granted as the focal point for international contacts and day-to-day activities. The essays collected here consider how urban spaces have been transformed-not only spatially but socially, economically, and culturally-into multi-centered metropolitan arrays, with contributors examining the new urban identities that may emerge from such changing conditions.
Sociology of environment --- Amsterdam --- Regional planning --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Research --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- stadsontwikkeling --- urbanisatie --- migratie --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Regional development --- State planning --- Landscape protection --- Government policy --- Management
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Urban 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&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. The experiences and po
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Cities and towns--Sociology --- Economics [Urban ] --- Economie [Stedelijke ] --- Economie urbaine --- Polarisatie (Sociale wetenschappen) --- Polarisation collective --- Polarization (Social sciences) --- Sociologie [Stedelijke ] --- Sociologie urbaine --- Sociology [Urban ] --- Stedelijke economie --- Stedelijke sociologie --- Steden--Sociologie --- Urban economics --- Urban sociology --- Villes--Sociologie --- Minorities --- Sociology, Urban. --- Economic conditions. --- Socioeconomic status --- Cities and towns --- Political science --- Social groups --- Social influence --- Sociology, Urban --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Economics --- Economic aspects
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City in Sight presents recent scholarship on the various issues facing today's Dutch metropolitan areas, including immigration and the growing diversity among the urban population, urban restructuring and neighborhood renewal, shifts in urban governance, and the promotion of active citizenship. With its wealth of information and up-to-date research, this text will appeal to scholars of urban politics and social history from all over the globe.
Sociology of environment --- Netherlands --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Cities and towns --Netherlands. --- City planning --Netherlands. --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Urban policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements
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