Title: Placemaking And Policies For Competitive Cities
Description: 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, &lsquo;creative class&rsquo; policies aimed at attracting talent, as well as policies that.
Subjects: City planning, Urban Community development, Urban policy, Community development