ISBN 92-64-02708-4 04 2006 04 1 P Competitive Cities in the Global Economy Competitive Cities in the Global Economy (2025)

Oecd Territorial Reviews: Competitive Cities in the Global Economy – Edited by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

Growth and Change, 2008

Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries

2012

Urban Regions in Europe–Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

Nowadays it is well-established fact that urban regions and large ones in particular are crucial for promoting creativity, innovation and subsequent economic growth in the economy. Therefore, it is important to focus policies in Europe on how to improve the existing conditions of urban regions so they can function as engines of economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to discuss policies needed to meet the current urban challenges and to make urban regions in Europe more competitive. A problem with current spatial policies at the EU-level as well as at the national level in most countries is that the policies mainly ignore functional urban regions and instead focus on administrative regions. A reason for this is that there is often no political body with authority over the whole functional urban region. In this paper, we present ideas for a new type of spatial policies in Europe focusing on innovation and growth. For instance, there is a need to take measures to increase the density of population and companies in functional urban regions and to improve transport infrastructure to increase the geographical extension of functional regions. There is also a need to develop more urban regions into real innovation nodes by developing more elite universities with a proper R&D funding and a capacity to compete with the best universities in the US. Another focus must be on increased investments in higher education as well as policies aiming at increasing the attractiveness of urban regions in terms of housing infrastructure and supply of amenities.

Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

The importance of metropolitan regions as national growth and development engines, and in particular as driving forces in national as well as global innovation processes is well recognized. This paper highlights the role of metropolitan regions in different contexts in order to lay a foundation for future research on metropolitan regions and their development. Specifically, the paper dwells on the role of metropolitan regions as nodes in national and international networks and as nodes of knowledge generation and innovation. Further, market potential as a concept describing the economic concentration to and the opportunities of making contacts within and between metropolitan regions is introduced. Additionally, the internal dynamic of metropolitan regions and the role of fast and slow processes is described. Lastly this paper illustrates how the input and output market potentials represent factors that adjust slowly and that play the same role for metropolitan development as metropolitan infrastructure.

City-regions in Europe: <i>The potentials and the realities</i>

Town Planning Review, 2007

In recent debates about future urban development challenges the city-region area gets growing attention as this is considered as being very important from the point of view of economic competitiveness and environmental and social sustainability aspects of urban development, as well. The aim of the paper is to discuss the city-region issue with some conclusions to be drawn from the perspective of housing markets and housing policies.

EC-OECD Seminar Series on Designing better economic development policies for regions and cities

2018

 Background information This paper was prepared as a background document to the OECD-European Commission Seminar on "Behavioural insights and organisational behaviour" held on 10 May 2017 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France. It sets a basis for reflection and discussion.  About the Project This seminar is part of a five-part seminar series in the context of an EC-OECD project "Designing better economic development policies for regions and cities". Other sessions in the series addressed the use of: contracts for flexibility/adaptability, performance indicators, financial instruments, and insights from behavioural science. The outcome of the seminars supports the work of the Regional Development Policy Committee and its mandate to promote the design and implementation of policies that are adapted to the relevant territorial scales or geographies, and that focus on the main factors that sustain the competitive advantages of regions and cities. The seminars also support the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) of the European Commission in the preparation of the impact assessment for the post-2020 legislative proposals and to support broader discussion with stakeholders on the future direction of the delivery mechanisms of regional policy.

Re-structuring Competitive Metropolitan Regions in North-west Europe: On Territory and Governance

2003

This paper intends to build a bridge between academic debates on the contemporary rescaling of political economy, with regard to urban governance, and the strategic approaches produced by policy makers and planners with a view to establishing region-wide governance-structures for metropolitan regions. To do so, the authors use empirical evidence from several northwestern metropolitan regions, namely London, Paris, Randstad and RheinRuhr, which were under study in the framework of two research projects, namely, EURBANET and GEMACA. The paper commences by discussing whether 'places' can actually compete, and this will be followed by a short historical survey of the nation state's interest in developing global cities and metropolitan regions as competitive territories. After taking into account their specific 'spatial configurations' we will then focus on the territorial shapes of such regions. The authors present a rather simple method to demarcate city-regions as comparable 'Functional Urban Regions'. It will then be argued that to optimise their development and to exploit their potentialities, political focus should be directed towards upgrading the economic, institutional and social base, which is a prerequisite for entrepreneurial success. The article chiefly deals with the issue of establishing appropriate city-regional 'organizing capacities,' and provides a critical overview of the situation in four exemplary regions. In the concluding section this perspective will be extended by discussing in what sense these 'Functional Urban Regions' are actually 'regions'?

Global city-regions: trends, theory, policy

Area, 2003

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The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking. (Conference Proceedings of the Regional Studies Association RSA Winter Conference November 2013 London - UK). ISBN: 978-1-897721-45-2.

Mobilising Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth, 2013

ABSTRACT: What this paper is trying to highlight is how City-Regions are being actively constructed (Harrison, 2012), where they are being mobilised in support of, or in opposition to, particular territorial development models and strategies. Hence, this paper contributes to debates about the meaning and the understanding of the dynamics of actively constructed term of the “City-Region”, by proposing an Analytical Systemic Framework after reviewing the literature of the main key authors. The Analytical Systemic Framework called “The Future of the City-Regions” (FCR) consists of 5-Systems: URBS (Urban System), CYBER (Relational System), CIVITAS (Socio-Cultural System), POLIS (Socio-Political System) and DEMOS (Democratic System).

Urban Regions and Economic Globalization: An Introduction

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2005