Towards a competitive sustainable modern city Contents: Introduction PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness Diane Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez 3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China Shen Jianfa 4 In search of an innovation economic geography Edward Blakely 5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urban resilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea Hyun Woo Kim and Gi Chan Kim PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY 6 Focused Research University and Matrix College : Incheon National Universitys strategies based on combination and permutation Cho Dong Sung 7 Human behavior and economic development: culture psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city Peter Karl Kresl 9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar 10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentration in Mexico 1980 2015 Jaime Sobrino 11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence of interactive cities 200 Clemente Ruiz Durán 12 Mexican cities innovative industry and competitiveness in the age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 Isela Orihuela Index. This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness. Focusing on major cities in East Asia North America and Western Europe Towards a Competitive Sustainable Modern City illuminates the ways in which cities differ not only in their course and stages of development but in the nature of their economies and their administrative structures. Featuring a wide ranging set of contributions from top researchers this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face such as social cohesion tolerance and cultural diversity and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. These issues are explored in relation to contemporary topics including the growing economy of robotics the rising importance and use of artificial intelligence and the information and communications economy. Towards a Competitive Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas. Its stimulating yet accessible approach to the topic and key case studies will also greatly benefit urban planners and economic policy makers looking to improve contemporary cities