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Discourses, Realities and Implementation

By: Hans Thor Andersen (Editor), Tuna Tasan-Kok (Editor), Thomas Maloutas (Editor), Peter Ache (Editor), Mike Raco (Editor)

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European cities have for decades found themselves in a phase of important changes. Concomitantly multi-level and multi-actor policy processes have unfolded in the EU. Sub-national governments are facing new challenges as their manufacturing industry withers away, still more responsibility for matching the globalisation ch- lenges such as welfare, employment and general social improvements are tra- ferred from national to sub-national levels. This raises speci?c governance problems for city regions in their attempt to meet the demand from the emerging knowled- based society. Yet, no city or city region exists in a vacuum; they are all embedded in national settings with speci?c structures and traditions as well as different p- ceptions of challenges, needs and solutions. It appears that a general, neoliberal discourse has conquered the political agenda during the last one or two decades: That economic regeneration requires increasing competitiveness achieved by - forced stress on knowledge intensive industries, which itself needs more and better education. However, the implementation of such a strategy has many forms and the realities are often quite a step from the intended outcome. During the last three years, a group of about forty people has met regularly across Europe to develop the ideas as originally presented in the Memorandum of Und- standing, setting the agenda for the analysis of preconditions, strategies and o- comes among different cities in their effort to reconcile welfare and growth.

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Discourses and Conceptualizations of Competitiveness and Cohesion
Cities Between Competitiveness and Cohesion: Discourses, Realities and Implementation - Introduction	p. 3
Competitiveness and Cohesion: A Janus Head? Some Conceptual Clarifications	p. 19
Analyzing the Competitiveness of Cities and Regions
Are Entrepreneurial Cities More Successful? Empirical Evidence from 50 German Cities	p. 41
Competitiveness and Cohesion in the Spanish Provinces: A Territorial Approach	p. 61
Globalizing Urban Economies and Social Inequality: An Empirical Assessment. The Case of Amsterdam and Rotterdam	p. 79
The Conditional Nature of Relations Between Competitiveness, Social Cohesion and Spatial Inequalities: The Evidence from Istanbul	p. 99
Detecting Social Cohesion in Cities and Regions
Immigration and the Spatial (Dis)Equilibrium of Competitiveness - Cohesion in Athens	p. 119
Labour Migration and Social Cohesion - Some Empirical Evidence from Vienna	p. 135
From Survival to Competition? The Socio-Spatial Evolution of Turkish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Antwerp	p. 151
Maribor - Housing Strategies in a Slovenian City Linking Competitiveness with Social Cohesion	p. 169
Practice of the Competitiveness and Cohesion Discourse in Urban and Regional Development
Sustainable Urban Regeneration in a Global City - The Regeneration of Paddington Basin	p. 187
Finnish Urban Districts - New Actors in Multi-Level Governance	p. 205
Reconciling Competitiveness and Social Cohesion in Urban Regions - The Role of Transport Policy	p. 223
Positioning Bratislava in an Emerging Cross-Border Metropolitan Area	p. 243
Reconciling Competitiveness and Cohesion - Conclusions
Conclusions - Competitiveness and Cohesion: One Discourse, Multiple Realities and New Challenges for Policy and Research	p. 259
References	p. 275
Index	p. 293
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