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Urban Economy

A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2015) | Viewed by 42862

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Prof. Dr. Peter Karl Kresl

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Economics Department, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
Interests: urban economy; economics of integration; the European Union; U.S./Canada relations; urban economies and globalization; culture policy; trade conflict

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In 1989, the EuroCities Movement declared that “now is the time for the cities”. In October 2014 the United Nations sponsored the first “World Cities Day”. In the intervening quarter century, there has been an outpouring of research that has been conducted on various aspects of the economies of cities. In this issue of Economies we will capture some of the more interesting current manifestations of this global effort. There has been a fascination with MegaCities and with the largest cities, in general. However, in addition to agglomeration economies has come the realization that social exclusion and slums are also attributes of our largest cities. This is creating an awareness that smaller cities also have attributes that are attractive to skilled workers and to firms in the industries of tomorrow. Today the issue has been complicated by the requirements that urban economies must be sustainable, in the sense of the environment, demographics, social aspects, and well-being of all residents, as well as being competitive relative to other cities that seek the same skilled and mobile workers and firms. The aging of the population is bringing fiscal strains that will have their impact on younger workers who may have to support the health and living needs of seniors. These issues are fascinating to all of us who will live in an increasingly urbanized world for the rest of our lives. We hope this volume will be positively informative.

Prof. Dr. Peter Karl Kresl
Guest Editor

Keywords

  • urban economy
  • agglomeration economies
  • urban sustainable development
  • urban economic planning
  • welfare
  • urban competitiveness

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Urban Economy
by Peter Karl Kresl
Economies 2014, 2(4), 218-219; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies2040218 - 17 Dec 2014
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In a call for papers, for the special issue to be devoted to “Urban Economy” late in 2015, that the Economies editors issued recently, I noted the increased attention that has been given to urban economies during the past quarter century. This is [...] Read more.
In a call for papers, for the special issue to be devoted to “Urban Economy” late in 2015, that the Economies editors issued recently, I noted the increased attention that has been given to urban economies during the past quarter century. This is concomitant with the increased importance and role in policy that cities have attained. This is, in part, due to the diminished capacity of national and sub-national governments to find the funds needed for urban projects and services, and in part to the understanding that cities are the key to the economies and societies of most if not all nations.[...] Full article
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Annual City Festivals as Tools for Sustainable Competitiveness: The World Port Days Rotterdam
by Erwin Van Tuijl and Leo Van den Berg
Economies 2016, 4(2), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies4020011 - 23 May 2016
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Many cities organize annual local festivals for the positive effects on urban development, although success is far from straightforward. This article reviews a case study of the World Port Days in Rotterdam in order to demonstrate how annual city festivals can contribute to [...] Read more.
Many cities organize annual local festivals for the positive effects on urban development, although success is far from straightforward. This article reviews a case study of the World Port Days in Rotterdam in order to demonstrate how annual city festivals can contribute to sustainable competitiveness, despite limitations as well. We show how this maritime event—that is jointly organized by the business community, the Port Authority and the City Government—offers benefits for citizens as well as for firms. Our empirical results unveil that the business value of the event includes generation of societal support, image improvement, labor market development and networking, while the value for society refers to education, leisure and to a certain degree to social inclusion. The direct value of the event for business in terms of sales and recruitment is limited, while the long-term effects of educational function deserve further attention. Finally, we provide policy lessons that, when properly contextualized, other cities may help to use annual local festivals as tools for sustainable competitiveness. Full article
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Revisiting “Southern” Sprawl: Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts
by Ilaria Tombolini, Ilaria Zambon, Achille Ippolito, Stathis Grigoriadis, Pere Serra and Luca Salvati
Economies 2015, 3(4), 237-259; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies3040237 - 21 Dec 2015
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Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since the 1970s, urban dispersion advanced rapidly in southern Europe—irrespective of a city’s size and morphology—with urbanization rates growing faster than population. A comparison between [...] Read more.
Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since the 1970s, urban dispersion advanced rapidly in southern Europe—irrespective of a city’s size and morphology—with urbanization rates growing faster than population. A comparison between the metropolitan areas of Barcelona, Rome and Athens reveals how sprawl has occurred in different ways in the three cities, highlighting peculiar relationships between urbanization, land-use and economic structures. Sharing common drivers of change related to population dynamics, socio-spatial structure and deregulated urban expansion, sprawl has adapted to the local economic, cultural and environmental context. Barcelona shows a dispersion pattern towards a more spatially-balanced morphology, with expanding sub-centres distributed around the central city, Rome appears to be mostly scattered around the historical city with fragmented urban fabric and heterogeneous economic functions, Athens is denser, with polarized economic spaces and social segregation. Understanding how place-specific factors influence processes of settlement dispersion in Mediterranean contexts may inform policies of urban containment and land-use management. Full article
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Understanding Cultural Geography as a Pseudo-Diffusion Process: The Case of the Veneto Region
by Guido Ferilli, Pier Luigi Sacco, Massimo Buscema and Giorgio Tavano Blessi
Economies 2015, 3(2), 100-127; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies3020100 - 4 Jun 2015
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In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region’s cultural hub [...] Read more.
In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region’s cultural hub in terms of concentration of activities and facilities, global visibility and attraction of resources, plays a marginal role in determining the momentum of cultural initiative at the regional level as of 2007 data. The areas with the greater momentum are relatively marginal ones but characterized by a strong presence of design-oriented companies that are actively engaging in culture-driven innovation in a context of gradually horizontally-integrated clusters. Our findings call for a revision of the traditional policy approaches that identify centralities in terms of concentration of activities and facilities based on past dynamics, and to design policies accordingly. We argue in favour of a more forward-looking, evidence-based approach. Full article
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Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia
by Richard Hu
Economies 2015, 3(1), 37-54; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies3010037 - 16 Feb 2015
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The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, [...] Read more.
The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a set of indexes to measure global competitiveness, global migration, and global mobility of communities across global Sydney. The findings reveal that global competitiveness—the defining capacity of Sydney as a global city—has very weak association with global migration that measures the stock of foreign born population, but has very strong association with global mobility that measures the people movement in recent years. These findings call for a redefinition of migration to incorporate people movement to better capture the interplay between global city and migration. Full article
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