Global Urban Competitiveness Ranking 2018–2019

Ni, Pei; Kamiya, Mitsunobu; Shen, Jianfa; Gong, Weijin

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-2058-4_1

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“…Urban competitiveness is a multidimensional and complex phenomenon (Minghetti and Montaguti, 2010; Sáez and Periáñez, 2015; Falciola et al , 2020). It has been defined as the ability of a city to attract and retain investment, resources, people and skills over time (Martin and Simmie, 2008; Pike et al , 2016; Ni et al , 2019; Carpentieri, 2020), becoming, over the past decades, a topic of intense debate and renewed interest in the study of urban development and place management (Camagni, 1999; Kresl and Ietri, 2014; Esmaeilpoorarabi et al , 2016; Camagni et al , 2017; Blakely et al , 2019; Ni et al , 2021). On the one hand, beyond urban economic growth, contemporary approaches to urban competitiveness see it as closely related to a city’s ability to provide high levels of quality of life, social inclusion, equitable access to goods and services, image distinctiveness and place-based economic development (Carvalho et al , 2017; McCann, 2004; Balsas, 2020; Gargiulo and Sgambati, 2022; Sun and Yang, 2022) and hence a close theoretical and empirical connection emerged between urban competitiveness and place management studies (Kavaratzis and Ashworth, 2008; Halme, 2017; Jawahar and Muhammed M.K., 2022).…”

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Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon

Sgambati,

Carvalho

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the competitive potential of different classes of municipalities within larger metropolitan areas, considering three dimensions of place competitiveness, associated to contemporary economic recovery agendas: the “dual transition” (green and digital) and socio-economic resilience. Design/methodology/approach The proposed methodology is divided in two stages, the first aiming at developing a new Index of Urban Competitiveness, based on three key dimensions of place development, by using principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis; the second intends to identify municipalities’ main competitive assets, throughout the examination of the existing links between the overall competitiveness index and intra-metropolitan place conditions in each dimension. This methodology is applied to the metropolitan areas of Porto and Lisbon. Findings The analysis shows a weak link between population size and urban competitiveness, suggesting that economic recovery investments primarily targeting larger municipalities will not necessarily lead to greater metropolitan competitive advantages. On the contrary, taking into consideration place-based interventions for different “clubs” of municipalities would more likely contribute to enhance competitive performance and valorise territorial assets. Furthermore, while the relationship between competitiveness and environmental performance appears to be non-linear, digitalization and economic and social resilience prove to be key for urban competitive potential. Originality/value By drawing on contemporary notions of urban competitiveness, the work proposes a revised method to evaluate competitiveness, latent qualities and intrinsic features of places, constituting an initial step to conceive suitable metropolitan development and investment strategies for economic recovery.

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