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Berg, van den Leo
Name: Berg, van den Leo
Address: Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam
telephone +31-104081186, fax +31-104089153 lvandenberg@few.eur.nl
Education
Master degree (drs) in spatial economics (1972)
Doctorate degree (dr) in urban and regional economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1985)
Positions, functions
Professor of Urban economics and Urban Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Director Department of Regional, Port and Transport Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Director European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (EURICUR).
Scientific Director of the Master Courses: 1) @#@Urban Economics@#@, 2)‘Management of the European Metropolitan Region’, and 3)‘City Developer’, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Core member Economic Development Board Rotterdam
Specialisation
Urban development matters and urban management issues. Specialised in international comparative studies into matters of interest for city development.
Publications (author or co-author)
- Urban Europe, a study of growth and decline, Pergamon, Oxford, 1982
- Urban systems in a dynamic society, Avebury, Aldershot, 1987
- Spatial Cycles, Avebury, Aldershot, 1987
- City, Engine behind economic recovery, Avebury, Aldershot, 1987
- Marketing metropolitan regions, Euricur, Rotterdam, 1990
- Regional Airports and Urban Development, Euricur, Rotterdam, 1991
- Governing metropolitan regions, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 1993
- Urban Tourism, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 1995
- Metropolitan Organising Capacity, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 1997
- National Urban Policies in the European Union, Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Aldershot, 1998
- The European High-Speed Train and Urban Development, experiences in fourteen European urban regions, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 1998
- Urban Competitiveness, Marketing and the need for Organising Capacity, Urban Studies, 1999
- Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities: A New Policy Perspective, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2001
- Should cities help their citizens to adopt ICTs?, Environment and Planning, 2002
- Sports and City Marketing in European Cities, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2002
- Information and communications technology as potential catalyst for sustainable urban development, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot 2002
- The Infrastructure of Play: building the tourist city, Ed. Dennis R. Judd, The Infrastructure for Urban Tourism, an European model?, chapter 12, M.E. Sharpe, New York, 2002
- Social Challenges and Organising Capacity in Cities, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2003
- City and Enterprise: corporate community involvement in European and US cities, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2003
- The Student City, Strategic Planning for Student’s Communities in EU cities, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2004
- A Survey of Metropolitan Government in Europe. In D. Phares (Ed.), Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Government? (pp. 79-103). Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2004
- Area-based policies and the promotion of entrepreneurship in European Cities. In J. Potter (Ed.), Entrepreneurship: A Catalyst for Urban Regeneration (pp. 20-39). Paris, France: OECD, 2004
- National Urban Policies in the European Union, Euricur, Rotterdam, 2004
- European Cities in the Knowledge Economy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, 2005
- The Safe City; an international comparative urban study on safety and urban development Euricur, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK 2006
- E-governance in European and South African Cities, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK, 2006
- Thestudy of knowledge competitiveness in Europe, in Kresl, P.K. and Pengfei, N., Global Urban Competitiveness Report, Social Sciences Academic Press, China, 2006
- National Policy responses to Urban Challenges in Europe, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, 2007
European cities in the knowledge economy: towards a typology, Urban Studies, 2007
