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The Urban Response to Internationalization (Hardcover)
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The Urban Response to Internationalization (Hardcover)
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Three decades of accelerated trade and financial market
liberalization have had significant and lasting impacts on the
global economy and its component entities. In this volume, Peter
Karl Kresl and Earl Fry examine the impacts of these profound
changes on the economies of urban areas, and the responses to them.
They provide a comprehensive treatment of the issues surrounding
internationalization, such as urban transport, communication, and
production. In addition, the authors explore the effects of
internationalization on municipal foreign affairs, urban
governance, inter-city relations and structures, and strategic
planning. As nation states have diminished their intervention in
local economies, cities have been forced to implement new forms of
governance, cooperative inter-city relationships, and city
diplomacy. These aspects of globalization have presented urban
economies with challenges and threats to existing activities as
well as potentially positive opportunities for development of
higher value-added, higher-skilled activities. Forced to take a new
look at their international competitiveness, many city leaders have
launched strategic planning initiatives. Through these they hope to
facilitate development of activities that will improve the economic
lives of residents and enable their city to maintain or advance its
competitiveness and its position in the urban hierarchy. This
unique study will be of great interest to scholars and researchers
of economics, urban studies, and public policy, as well as to those
in city administrative and leadership positions.
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