Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Discourses and Conceptualizations of Competitiveness and Cohesion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Cities Between Competitiveness and Cohesion: Discourses, Realities and Implementation – Introduction

      • Peter Ache, Hans Thor Andersen

      Pages 3-18

   3. Competitiveness and Cohesion: A Janus Head? Some Conceptual Clarifications

      • Jan Vranken

      Pages 19-37

3. Analyzing the Competitiveness of Cities and Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Are Entrepreneurial Cities More Successful? Empirical Evidence from 50 German Cities

      • Stefano Panebianco

      Pages 41-60

   3. Competitiveness and Cohesion in the Spanish Provinces: A Territorial Approach

      • Asunción López, José M. Mella-Márquez, Federico Steinberg

      Pages 61-78

   4. Globalizing Urban Economies and Social Inequality: An Empirical Assessment. The Case of Amsterdam and Rotterdam

      • Jack Burgers, Jeroen van der Waal

      Pages 79-97

   5. The Conditional Nature of Relations Between Competitiveness, Social Cohesion and Spatial Inequalities: The Evidence from Istanbul

      • Ayda Eraydin

      Pages 99-115

4. Detecting Social Cohesion in Cities and Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Immigration and the Spatial (Dis)Equilibrium of Competitiveness – Cohesion in Athens

      • George Kandylis, Vassilis Arapoglou, Thomas Maloutas

      Pages 119-134

   3. Labour Migration and Social Cohesion – Some Empirical Evidence from Vienna

      • Ursula Reeger, Axel Borsdorf

      Pages 135-150

   4. From Survival to Competition? The Socio-Spatial Evolution of Turkish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Antwerp

      • Tuna Taşan-Kok, Jan Vranken

      Pages 151-168

   5. Maribor – Housing Strategies in a Slovenian City Linking Competitiveness with Social Cohesion

      • Metka Sitar

      Pages 169-184

5. Practice of the Competitiveness and Cohesion Discourse in Urban and Regional Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Sustainable Urban Regeneration in a Global City – The Regeneration of Paddington Basin

      • Mike Raco, Steven Henderson, Sophie Bowlby

      Pages 187-203

   3. Finnish Urban Districts – New Actors in Multi-Level Governance

      • Harri O. Andersson

      Pages 205-221

   4. Reconciling Competitiveness and Social Cohesion in Urban Regions – The Role of Transport Policy

      • Walter Schenkel, Dominik Oetterli

      Pages 223-241

   5. Positioning Bratislava in an Emerging Cross-Border Metropolitan Area

      • Daneš Brzica

      Pages 243-256

6. Reconciling Competitiveness and Cohesion – Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

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European cities have for decades found themselves in a phase of important changes. Concomitantly multi-level and multi-actor policy processes have unfolded in the EU. Sub-national governments are facing new challenges as their manufacturing industry withers away, still more responsibility for matching the globalisation ch- lenges such as welfare, employment and general social improvements are tra- ferred from national to sub-national levels. This raises speci?c governance problems for city regions in their attempt to meet the demand from the emerging knowled- based society. Yet, no city or city region exists in a vacuum; they are all embedded in national settings with speci?c structures and traditions as well as different p- ceptions of challenges, needs and solutions. It appears that a general, neoliberal discourse has conquered the political agenda during the last one or two decades: That economic regeneration requires increasing competitiveness achieved by - forced stress on knowledge intensive industries, which itself needs more and better education. However, the implementation of such a strategy has many forms and the realities are often quite a step from the intended outcome. During the last three years, a group of about forty people has met regularly across Europe to develop the ideas as originally presented in the Memorandum of Und- standing, setting the agenda for the analysis of preconditions, strategies and o- comes among different cities in their effort to reconcile welfare and growth.

• Economic Competitiveness
• Evolution
• Migration
• Re-Scaling Geographies
• Sector Policy (Housing, Labour Markets, Industrial, Transpor
• Social Cohension
• Urban and Regional Policy
• development
• population

• Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

  Peter Ache

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Hans Thor Andersen

• University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

  Thomas Maloutas

• King’s College London, UK

  Mike Raco

• Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Tuna Taşan-Kok

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