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978-1-4020-8241-2

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion : Discourses, Realities and Implementation

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8241-2

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The book shows that spatial and urban policy continues to be a key site of policy intervention and experimentation. Different national welfare systems, political cultures, and socio-economic conditions combine and recombine to address policy problems and opportunities. Collectively, the authors argue that the examined policy initiatives reflect and reproduce these broader changes and shifting ways of thinking about the appropriate relationships between citizens, businesses, and the state.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Economic Competitiveness / Evolution / Migration / Re-Scaling Geographies / Sector Policy Housing / Labour Markets / Industrial / Transpor / Social Cohension / Urban and Regional Policy / development / population / Human Geography / Social Sciences general / Social Policy / Economic Geography