Leo van Den Berg - Cities as Engines of Sustainable Competitiveness: European Urban Policy in Practice

CITIES AS ENGINES OF SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS

The European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, EURICUR, was founded in 1988 and has its seat with Erasmus University Rotterdam. EURICUR is the heart and pulse of an extensive network of European cities and universities. EURICURs principal objective is to stimulate fundamental international comparative research into matters that are of interest to cities. To that end, EURICUR coordinates, initiates and carries out studies of subjects of strategic value for urban management today and in the future. Through its network EURICUR has privileged access to crucial information regarding urban development in Europe and North America and to key persons at all levels, working in different public and private organizations active in metropolitan areas. EURICUR closely cooperates with the Eurocities Association, representing more than 100 large European cities. As a scientific institution, one of EURICURs core activities is to respond to the increasing need for information that broadens and deepens the insight into the complex process of urban development, among others by disseminating the results of its investigations by international book publications. These publications are especially valuable for city governments, supranational, national and regional authorities, chambers of commerce, real estate developers and investors, academics and students, and others with an interest in urban affairs.

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This book is part of a series published by Ashgate under the auspices of EURICUR, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Titles in the series include:

Sports and City Marketing in European Cities
Leo van den Berg, Erik Braun and Alexander H.J. Otgaar

The Student City
Leo van den Berg and Antonio P. Russo

The Safe City
Leo van den Berg, Peter M.J. Pol, Guiliano Mingardo and Carolien J.M. Spellier

E-Governance in European and South African Cities
Leo van den Berg, Andre van der Meer, Willem van Winden and Paulus Woets

National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe
Leo van den Berg, Erik Braun and Jan van der Meer

Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation
Alexander Otgaar, Leo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer, Carolien Speller

Industrial Tourism: Opportunities for City and Enterprise
Alexander H.J. Otgaar, Leo van den Berg, Christian Berger and Rachel Xiang

Toward Healthy Cities
Alexander Otgaar, Jeroen Klijs and Leo van den Berg

European Urban Policy in Practice

LEO VAN DEN BERG
JAN VAN DER MEER and LUIS CARVALHO

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Berg, Leo van den.

Cities as engines of sustainable competitiveness : European urban policy in practice / by Leo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer and Luis Carvalho.

pages cm. (EURICUR series (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research))

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-2702-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4724-2703-8 (ebook)

ISBN 978-1-4724-2704-5 (epub) 1. Urban policyEurope. 2. Cities and towns Europe. 3. City planning Europe. 4. Sustainable development Europe. I. Title.

HT151.B4197 2014

307.76094dc23

2013033198

ISBN 9781472427021 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315572093 (ebk)

Leo van den Berg is Director of Euricur and Professor of Urban Economics and Urban Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Jan van der Meer is Associate Director of Euricur and Associate Professor of Urban Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Luis de Carvalho is Senior Researcher at Euricur and at the Department for Urban, Port and Transport Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Karima Azaoum is a research assistant at the City of Rotterdam.

Dave Carter is Head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) at Manchester City Council and Chair of the EU Connected Smart Cities Network, a joint initiative of EUROCITIES and the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL).

Jamie Cudden is a Research Manager at the Planning and Economic Development Department, Dublin City Council.

Harriet Ellwein has a degree in geography, sociology and spatial planning from the Technical University of Munich. She has been involved in several national and international assignments in regional economic development. She is presently deputy Head of Department of Regional and Human Resources Development at the Economic Development Agency, City of Dortmund, Germany.

Eero Holstila is Senior Advisor of Futuro Consulting Helsinki Ltd, former Director of the Office of Economic Development, City of Helsinki (2006-2011) and CEO of Culminatum Innovation Ltd (2001-2005). He served as Director of the City of Helsinki Urban Facts (1985-2001).

Barbara Kovacs is an expert in urban development. She worked for many years for the Urban Building Department of the City of Budapest. She currently works for a private architecture firm.