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Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion

Discourses, Realities and Implementation

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Editors:
  1. Peter Ache

    1. Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Hans Thor Andersen

    1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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  3. Thomas Maloutas

    1. University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

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  4. Mike Raco

    1. King’s College London, UK

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  5. Tuna Taşan-Kok

    1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Cross-European analysis of urban and regional strategies of reconciling welfare and competitiveness
  • Developing an understanding of the strategy challenge to reconcile competitiveness with cohesion
  • Analysis of cities and regions as actors in multi-level governance settings
  • European comparative view on housing, labour markets, enterprises
  • European comparative view on ethnical issues, gender dimensions
  • European comparative view on urban development projects, transport, sustainability

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 93)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion

  • Book Subtitle: Discourses, Realities and Implementation

  • Editors: Peter Ache, Hans Thor Andersen, Thomas Maloutas, Mike Raco, Tuna Taşan-Kok

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8241-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8240-5Published: 20 May 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7816-2Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8241-2Published: 29 April 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 306

  • Topics: Human Geography, Social Sciences, general, Social Policy, Economic Geography

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