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Release : 1999
Genre : Cities and towns
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Author : Ann R. Markusen
Release : 1999
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Second Tier Cities by : Ann R. Markusen
Download or read book Second Tier Cities written by Ann R. Markusen. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization of national economies, disrupting traditional patterns of urban and regional growth. Many smaller cities -- such as Seattle, Washington; Campinas, Brazil; Oita, Japan; and Kumi, Korea -- have grown markedly faster than the largest metropolises. Dubbed here "second tier cities, " they are home to specialized industrial complexes that have taken root, provided significant job growth, and attracted mobile capital and labor. The culmination of an ambitious five-year, fourteen-city research project conducted by an international team of economics and geographers, Second Tier Cities examines the potential of these new regions to balance uneven regional development, create good, stable jobs, and moderate hyper-urbanization. Comparing across national borders, the contributors describe four types of second tier cities: Marshallian industrial districts, hub-and-spoke cities, satellite platforms, and government-anchored complexes. They find that both industrial and regional policies have been important contributors to the rise of second tier cities, though the former often trump the latter. Lessons for local, national, and international policymakers are drawn. The authors are critical of devolution and argue that it must be accompanied by strong labor and environmental standards and mechanisms to overcome differential regional resource endowments.
Author : Anna-Katharina Schaper
Release : 2018
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Book Synopsis Conquering China's Second-Tier Cities: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between a City's Degree of Internationalization and Foreign Companies' Market Entry Decisions in China's Second-Tier Cities by : Anna-Katharina Schaper
Download or read book Conquering China's Second-Tier Cities: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between a City's Degree of Internationalization and Foreign Companies' Market Entry Decisions in China's Second-Tier Cities written by Anna-Katharina Schaper. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh F. Kelly
Release : 2016-07-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis 24-Hour Cities by : Hugh F. Kelly
Download or read book 24-Hour Cities written by Hugh F. Kelly. This book was released on 2016-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition 24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America’s cities that never sleep. Over the last fifty years, the nation’s top live-work-play cities have proven themselves more than just vibrant urban environments for the elite. They are attracting a cross-section of the population from across the U.S. and are preferred destinations for immigrants of all income strata. This is creating a virtuous circle wherein economic growth enhances property values, stronger real estate markets sustain more reliable tax bases, and solid municipal revenues pay for better services that further attract businesses and talented individuals. Yet, just a generation ago, cities like New York, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, and Miami were broke (financially and physically), scarred by violence, and prime examples of urban dysfunction. How did the turnaround happen? And why are other cities still stuck with the hollow downtowns and sprawling suburbs that make for a 9-to-5 urban configuration? Hugh Kelly’s cross-disciplinary research identifies the ingredients of success, and the recipe that puts them together.
Author : Louise Young
Release : 2013-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Metropolis by : Louise Young
Download or read book Beyond the Metropolis written by Louise Young. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities: Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, and Okayama. As prefectural capitals, these cities constituted centers of their respective regions. All four grew at an enormous rate in the interwar decades, much as the metropolitan giants did. In spite of their commonalities, local conditions meant that policies of national development and the vagaries of the business cycle affected individual cities in diverse ways. As their differences reveal, there is no single master narrative of twentieth century modernization. By engaging urban culture beyond the metropolis, this study shows that Japanese modernity was not made in Tokyo and exported to the provinces, but rather co-constituted through the circulation and exchange of people and ideas throughout the country and beyond.
