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This title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing
several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling
volume examines the critical success factors that determine the
economic development of urban regions.
Published in 1997. The environment of cities has become
increasingly competitive. Tradition location factors, that once
tied economic activities firmly to particular areas have become
less important. Increasingly the ability of a city to anticipate,
respond to and cope with internal and external changes is getting
attention. Organizing capacity of cities, or of metropolitan
regions is becoming indispensible for sustainable economic and
social development. The authors have carried out investigations
into eight European cities to increase the insight into the
practice of organizing capacity. The analysis of the development
and implementation of 15 revitalization projects in these cities
shows that organizing capacity calls for a new style of
entrepreneurial urban management with public and private
networking, leadership, long term strategies and organizing
political and public support as key concepts.
First published in 1998, this collection of essays compares the
implementation of urban policies in 15 different countries across
the European Union, with most articles' contributors hailing from
their subject nation. The contributors include experts in geography
and spatial, town, transport and urban planning, and their
contributions reflect fundamental changes in the economy,
technology, demography and politics of European towns and cities.
They ask four main questions: what the urban development pattern
is, what administrative and financial relations between national
authorities and cities exist, which issues the national authorities
consider to be prominent and how this impacts on the national urban
planning policies. Through the provision of national perspectives,
they ask what can be learned through the comparison of how each
region has tailored its perspective and strategy.
This title was first published in 2003. While in the past,
corporate community involvement was mainly considered a form of
philanthropy, nowadays the argument is gaining credit that
corporate community involvement is not only a matter of ethics, but
also of self-interest. As companies recognize their interest in the
welfare of the city, they may become inclined to invest in some way
in that city's welfare. Assuming that the interests of public and
private stakeholders tend to converge as companies become aware of
their interest in an attractive environment, then corporate
community involvement may bring along a new type of public-private
partnership, as an instrument of urban regeneration. Bringing
together comparative case studies from Amsterdam, Chicago, Leeds,
London, Munich, New York, Seattle, St. Louis and The Hague, this
considers the potential implications of corporate community
involvement for the sustainable development of cities and the
creation of cross-sector partnerships. It analyses the involvement
of companies in urban challenges in the fields of education,
employment, safety, affordable housing and the living environment.
It also looks at the efforts made to establish strategic
partnership between "enlightened" corporations and public
authorities. The book reveals that "pro-active" firms attach much
value to investments in their "urban environment" as part of their
corporate strategy. But it also shows that cities do not yet take
full advantage of these arising opportunities.
This book presents a unique overview of urban policy conducted by
national authorities in the fifteen 'old' member states of the EU.
Focussing on recent changes in the development of the larger cities
and changes in policymaking by national authorities with respect to
urban development, the book is structured around 15 'country
chapters', written by national experts in the field of urban
development. The book provides an up-to-date source of information,
and will be of importance to anyone involved in the role and
development of European cities as well as the formulation and
delivery of associated national policies.
Published in 1997. The environment of cities has become
increasingly competitive. Tradition location factors, that once
tied economic activities firmly to particular areas have become
less important. Increasingly the ability of a city to anticipate,
respond to and cope with internal and external changes is getting
attention. Organizing capacity of cities, or of metropolitan
regions is becoming indispensible for sustainable economic and
social development. The authors have carried out investigations
into eight European cities to increase the insight into the
practice of organizing capacity. The analysis of the development
and implementation of 15 revitalization projects in these cities
shows that organizing capacity calls for a new style of
entrepreneurial urban management with public and private
networking, leadership, long term strategies and organizing
political and public support as key concepts.
First published in 1998, this collection of essays compares the
implementation of urban policies in 15 different countries across
the European Union, with most articles' contributors hailing from
their subject nation. The contributors include experts in geography
and spatial, town, transport and urban planning, and their
contributions reflect fundamental changes in the economy,
technology, demography and politics of European towns and cities.
They ask four main questions: what the urban development pattern
is, what administrative and financial relations between national
authorities and cities exist, which issues the national authorities
consider to be prominent and how this impacts on the national urban
planning policies. Through the provision of national perspectives,
they ask what can be learned through the comparison of how each
region has tailored its perspective and strategy.
This book presents a unique overview of urban policy conducted by
national authorities in the fifteen 'old' member states of the EU.
Focussing on recent changes in the development of the larger cities
and changes in policymaking by national authorities with respect to
urban development, the book is structured around 15 'country
chapters', written by national experts in the field of urban
development. The book provides an up-to-date source of information,
and will be of importance to anyone involved in the role and
development of European cities as well as the formulation and
delivery of associated national policies.
This title was first published in 2003. While in the past,
corporate community involvement was mainly considered a form of
philanthropy, nowadays the argument is gaining credit that
corporate community involvement is not only a matter of ethics, but
also of self-interest. As companies recognize their interest in the
welfare of the city, they may become inclined to invest in some way
in that city's welfare. Assuming that the interests of public and
private stakeholders tend to converge as companies become aware of
their interest in an attractive environment, then corporate
community involvement may bring along a new type of public-private
partnership, as an instrument of urban regeneration. Bringing
together comparative case studies from Amsterdam, Chicago, Leeds,
London, Munich, New York, Seattle, St. Louis and The Hague, this
considers the potential implications of corporate community
involvement for the sustainable development of cities and the
creation of cross-sector partnerships. It analyses the involvement
of companies in urban challenges in the fields of education,
employment, safety, affordable housing and the living environment.
It also looks at the efforts made to establish strategic
partnership between "enlightened" corporations and public
authorities. The book reveals that "pro-active" firms attach much
value to investments in their "urban environment" as part of their
corporate strategy. But it also shows that cities do not yet take
full advantage of these arising opportunities.
This title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing
several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling
volume examines the critical success factors that determine the
economic development of urban regions.
In our increasingly global and commercial world, where once sport
would only have been seen by a few thousand on the terraces it is
now watched by many millions via satellite. This mass global
audience is invited not only to watch the sporting event, but also
to visit the city where it takes place. Such events may help
promote the host city as a tourist destination and business
location. City governors are becoming increasingly aware of the
possibilities of using sport as an instrument of reaching
objectives of urban management. This engaging book investigates the
state of the art of sports and city marketing in five European
cities: Rotterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, Manchester and Turin. In
each of these cities, the book examines how sports (accommodations,
clubs and events) have been made an instrument of city marketing
and how the cities have attempted to maximize their potential
through sports and city marketing policies. A comparison of the
findings highlights the merits or disadvantages of sports clusters
and strategic co-operation in sports and city marketing.
Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented
people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new
ideas and innovations? What are the ingredients of success? Can
innovative cities be created and stimulated, or do they just
flourish by mere chance? This book analyses the development and
management of innovation systems in cities, in order to provide a
better understanding of what makes such systems perform. The book
opens by developing a conceptual model that combines insights from
urban economics with economic geography, urban governance and place
marketing. This highlights the relevance of path dependence,
different types of proximity (and the role of clusters, networks
and platforms), institutional conditions, place attractiveness and
place identity in the evolution of local innovation systems. The
authors then draw on this conceptual framework to structure
empirical case studies in three cities with a relatively high
innovation performance: Eindhoven (the Netherlands), Stockholm
(Sweden) and Suzhou (China). Through these case studies they
provide a detailed analysis of how successful innovation systems
evolve and what makes them tick. Unique to this book is the linking
of analysis to concrete policy and management responses. The book
ends with a discussion on six themes in the development of
successful urban innovation systems: firm-capabilities and leader
firms, higher education and research, attractive environment, place
branding, institutional environment and entrepreneurship. Each
theme is examined fully, drawing lessons from the case studies, and
from recent insights and other cases discussed in the literature.
This title will be of interest to students, researchers and
policymakers involved in regional innovation systems, knowledge
locations and cluster development.
In our increasingly global and commercial world, where once sport
would only have been seen by a few thousand on the terraces it is
now watched by many millions via satellite. This mass global
audience is invited not only to watch the sporting event, but also
to visit the city where it takes place. Such events may help
promote the host city as a tourist destination and business
location. City governors are becoming increasingly aware of the
possibilities of using sport as an instrument of reaching
objectives of urban management. This engaging book investigates the
state of the art of sports and city marketing in five European
cities: Rotterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, Manchester and Turin. In
each of these cities, the book examines how sports (accommodations,
clubs and events) have been made an instrument of city marketing
and how the cities have attempted to maximize their potential
through sports and city marketing policies. A comparison of the
findings highlights the merits or disadvantages of sports clusters
and strategic co-operation in sports and city marketing.
Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to
escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is
one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada
Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the
Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to
examine how this practice came to play such a dominant and
relatively recent role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to
Burma, revealing that Burmese Buddhists in the colonial period were
pioneers in making insight meditation indispensable to modern
Buddhism. Braun focuses on the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw, a pivotal
architect of modern insight meditation, and explores Ledi's
popularization of the study of crucial Buddhist philosophical texts
in the early twentieth century. By promoting the study of such
abstruse texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to standardize and
simplify meditation methods and make them widely accessible in part
to protect Buddhism in Burma after the British takeover in 1885.
Braun also addresses the question of what really constitutes the
"modern" in colonial and postcolonial forms of Buddhism, arguing
that the emergence of this type of meditation was caused by
precolonial factors in Burmese culture as well as the disruptive
forces of the colonial era. Offering a readable narrative of the
life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism's most important figures,
The Birth of Insight provides an original account of the
development of mass meditation.
Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented
people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new
ideas and innovations? What are the ingredients of success? Can
innovative cities be created and stimulated, or do they just
flourish by mere chance? This book analyses the development and
management of innovation systems in cities, in order to provide a
better understanding of what makes such systems perform. The book
opens by developing a conceptual model that combines insights from
urban economics with economic geography, urban governance and place
marketing. This highlights the relevance of path dependence,
different types of proximity (and the role of clusters, networks
and platforms), institutional conditions, place attractiveness and
place identity in the evolution of local innovation systems. The
authors then draw on this conceptual framework to structure
empirical case studies in three cities with a relatively high
innovation performance: Eindhoven (the Netherlands), Stockholm
(Sweden) and Suzhou (China). Through these case studies they
provide a detailed analysis of how successful innovation systems
evolve and what makes them tick. Unique to this book is the linking
of analysis to concrete policy and management responses. The book
ends with a discussion on six themes in the development of
successful urban innovation systems: firm-capabilities and leader
firms, higher education and research, attractive environment, place
branding, institutional environment and entrepreneurship. Each
theme is examined fully, drawing lessons from the case studies, and
from recent insights and other cases discussed in the literature.
This title will be of interest to students, researchers and
policymakers involved in regional innovation systems, knowledge
locations and cluster development.
Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to
escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is
one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada
Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the
Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to
examine how this practice came to play such a dominant-and
relatively recent-role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to
Burma, revealing that Burmese Buddhists in the colonial period were
pioneers in making insight meditation indispensable to modern
Buddhism. Braun focuses on the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw, a pivotal
architect of modern insight meditation, and explores Ledi's
popularization of the study of crucial Buddhist philosophical texts
in the early twentieth century. By promoting the study of such
abstruse texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to standardize and
simplify meditation methods and make them widely accessible-in part
to protect Buddhism in Burma after the British takeover in 1885.
Braun also addresses the question of what really constitutes the
"modern" in colonial and postcolonial forms of Buddhism, arguing
that the emergence of this type of meditation was caused by
precolonial factors in Burmese culture as well as the disruptive
forces of the colonial era. Offering a readable narrative of the
life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism's most important figures,
The Birth of Insight provides an original account of the
development of mass meditation.
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