Globalization and Urban Implosion Creating New Competitive Advantage /

• Main Author: Dalla Longa, Remo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Economic geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

In the past twenty years, globalization has led to an obsolescence of economic and social urban functions. Large cities face an implosion of old functions and, thus, have a clear need to replace old functions with new ones, especially within complex urban areas with a high concentration of both publ...

Table of Contents:

• Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention
• Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies
• Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments
• Case Studies
• Conclusion.