Cities and crisis - Hardcover

Konvitz, Josef W.

 
9781784992903: Cities and crisis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1784992909 ISBN 13: 9781784992903
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their contribution to the financial crisis

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Josef W. Konvitz is Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, and Visiting Professor at King's College London

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debate and strategy as to how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis is about the future, starting where we are. Illuminating recent trends, emerging risks and initiatives to improve decision-making, it provides a fresh assessment of changes since 1990, of policy assumptions about urban economies, the lessons of experience. The argument is made that a city-centred strategy to lift urban productivity must reduce deficits of urban innovation and of infrastructure investment (the new limits to growth).

Drawing on dozens of reports from the OECD on economics, environment and governance, Cities and crisis provides a 'long-term, big-time' framework to understand the many technical issues that complicate decision-making and policy. It explores past strengths and current weaknesses of macro-economic and sectoral policies to guide urban development in relation to housing, infrastructure and innovation. With the prospect of more frequent and costly environmental, health and economic crises to come, there is discussion of the vulnerability of cities, of resilience as a part of preparedness and of the limits of domestic regulation to cope with mega-disasters and cross-border risks. It explains how paradigm shifts in economic governance have been undertaken successfully by the West in the past, but that we are out of practice. Radical reforms may be needed to obtain practical solutions to strengthen urban economic performance and reduce the impact of urban disasters and crises: our major challenges. There is a call for cities to be placed at the centre of policy, which will challenge how governments, structured by sectors and levels, work.

This will be essential reading for students and academics in political sciences, urban studies, economics and business, for policy makers and officials and the general reader interested in the future of cities in the twenty-first century.

Aus dem Klappentext

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debate and strategy as to how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis is about the future, starting where we are. Illuminating recent trends, emerging risks and initiatives to improve decision-making, it provides a fresh assessment of changes since 1990, of policy assumptions about urban economies, the lessons of experience. The argument is made that a city-centred strategy to lift urban productivity must reduce deficits of urban innovation and of infrastructure investment (the new limits to growth). Drawing on dozens of reports from the OECD on economics, environment and governance, Cities and crisis provides a 'long-term, big-time' framework to understand the many technical issues that complicate decision-making and policy. It explores past strengths and current weaknesses of macro-economic and sectoral policies to guide urban development in relation to housing, infrastructure and innovation. With the prospect of more frequent and costly environmental, health and economic crises to come, there is discussion of the vulnerability of cities, of resilience as a part of preparedness and of the limits of domestic regulation to cope with mega-disasters and cross-border risks. It explains how paradigm shifts in economic governance have been undertaken successfully by the West in the past, but that we are out of practice. Radical reforms may be needed to obtain practical solutions to strengthen urban economic performance and reduce the impact of urban disasters and crises: our major challenges. There is a call for cities to be placed at the centre of policy, which will challenge how governments, structured by sectors and levels, work. This will be essential reading for students and academics in political sciences, urban studies, economics and business, for policy makers and officials and the general reader interested in the future of cities in the twenty-first century.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784992909
ISBN 13 
9781784992903
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Europaallee 1
Bad Hersfeld
36244
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780719099649: Cities and Crisis

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0719099641 ISBN 13:  9780719099649
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016
Softcover