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Towns and Cities - Competing for survival (Hardcover)
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Towns and Cities - Competing for survival (Hardcover)
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The last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and
cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, retailing has
moved out of towns and jobs have also declined in city centres,
particularly with the growth of business and science parks. With
the continuing decline of the manufacturing sector and the
re-shaping of employment in the service sector, a new force will
increasingly dominate urban development, the meritocratic elite.
The meritocratic elite are those able to develop and use
information technology to generate productivity and wealth. Where
they wish to live will increasingly influence future urban
development.Towns and Cities - Competing for survival suggests that
as public and private corporations continue to downsize, outsource
and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and
employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. Herein lies one
of the solutions to the decline of towns and cities.Town planners
and economists have continually displayed a lack of understanding
of these developments and have not anticipated the forces which
cause urban change. As the global econonmy, combined with changes
in transport and information technology increasingly dominates our
lives, local and national governments need a new agenda for the
21st century. If they fail to rise to this challenge many of our
town and city centres will continue to decline and may not survive.
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