Planning Cities For The Future
Planning Cities For The Future
The Successes andFailures of Urban Economic Strategies in Europe
Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics(Emiritus), Bucknell University, US and President, Global Urban CompetitivenessProject
2007 192 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 530 2
ebookisbn 978 1 84720 433 2
Description
‘The book delivers an inspiring, first-handinsight into the state of urban competitiveness and how cities may make thebest use of it. . . Kresl gives a well-informed insight into urban problems andrelated strategies, based on a carefully deployed comparative approach.’
– Markus Hesse, Growth and Change
Contents
Peter Kresl brings unique and invaluableempirical evidence, from the early 1990s through to 2005, to examine therelationship between urban competitiveness and economic-strategic planning forten internationally networked cities within the EU.
Planning Cities for the Future links the studyof urban economic competitiveness with urban planning and is able to ascertainthe crucial factors for success in this area of public policy. These factorsinclude effective governance, leadership and monitoring of performance. Theauthor also reveals how economic turbulence – macro-economic stagnation, theemergence of competitors such as China and Central Europe and the introductionof the euro for example – all have distinct impacts on the economic developmentof cities. He also suggests that today’s economic strengths may create tomorrow’ssocial pathologies, a fact which city planners must always keep in mind. PeterKresl’s book offers examples of cities that got it right and others that didnot.
Scholars and researchers interested in publicsector economics, urban economic development and planning as well as cityplanners themselves will find much to interest and stimulate them in this book.