Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis - Brossura

 
9780816633746: Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis
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ISBN 10: 0816633746 ISBN 13: 9780816633746
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1999

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Analyzes and compares the rapid growth of medium-sized cities.

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 metropolitan regions. These “second tier cities” 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 economists 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.

Contributors: Clelio Campolina Diniz, U Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Masatomi Funaba, Kobe U of Commerce, Japan; Elyse Golob, NYC Economic Development Goup; Mia Gray, Cambridge U; Jun Ho Jeong, Oxford U; Sam Ock Park, Seoul National U; Mohammad Razavi; Fabiana Borges T. Santos, U Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Masayuki Sasaki, Kanzawa U, Japan.

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Book by Markusen Ann

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816633746
ISBN 13 
9780816633746
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
403
Redattore
Markusen Ann R., Lee Yong-Sook, Digiovanna Sean
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Buchpark GmbH
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