In Quest of the Good Urban Life: Socio-spatial Dynamics and Residential Building Stock Transformation in Zurich

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of fi nance and specialised services, has transformed the social and economic structure of 'global cities'-i.e. those cities that "play a key role in the control and coordination of international capitalism" (Hamnett, 1994, p. 401). These global (Sassen, 1991) or world (Friedmann, 1986) cities exhibit an increase

The significance of creative industry policy narratives for Zurich's transformation toward a post-industrial city

“…Although different aspects are indeed covered in the literature (cf. Eisinger & Reuther, 2007;Hitz, Schmid, & Wolff, 1994;Koll-Schretzenmayr, Ritterhoff, & Siebel, 2009;Salvini & Heye, 2008;Theurillat & Crevoisier, 2012;Widmer, 1995), this body of work is very limited. Zurich's traditional industrial heart, Escher-Wyss, now known as Zurich-West, and its remarkable transformation into a new trend-quarter -initially pushed from the bottom-up and later changed to a top-down strategy-shows the radical nature of this process, yet has hardly received academic coverage (for an exception, cf.…”

Global Cities and Multinational Enterprises: Integrating the Existing Concepts for Future Research Studies

“…Growing income inequality and occupational polarisation in GCs result from an increase in the demand from MNEs (mainly APS firms but also R&D firms and others) for higher-end staff (professionals, managers) as well as the declining demand for middle-income (i.e., manufacturing) jobs (Sassen, 1991). The polarisation discussed above is also related to the migration into GCs of highly skilled international workers as well as a large number of unskilled ones (Chiu & Lui, 2004;Koll-Schretzenmayr et al, 2009;Gornig & Goebel, 2018), which not only changes the demographic structure of GCs and their surrounding areas (Buzar et al, 2007), but also fosters an influx of elites that are not involved in the affairs of local communities (Sassen, 1991), the dissemination of a precarious work model among immigrants, including highly educated ones (Wang et al, 2017) and the growing group of GC residents with no access to healthcare or decent living spaces (Kathiravelu, 2016;Ye, 2016).…”

La sélectivité spatiale de l’élite politique locale: Une analyse exploratoire du lieu de résidence des élus communaux de Zurich et Lausanne (1980‐2016)

“…Ce « triangle doré » est principalement complété par des quartiers « moyens‐aisé » et « gentrifiés » (voir: Koll‐Schretzenmayr et al 2009) partant du côté occidental du triangle et s’orientant vers le Nord‐Ouest de la ville. Il s’agit du quartier de Höngg [Q101] au sein du Kreis 10 au Nord‐Ouest de la ville et qui possède une population dont le revenu médian est aujourd’hui légèrement supérieur à l’ensemble de la ville, mais aussi, plus au centre, de l’ancien quartier industriel d’Escher‐Wyss [Q52] au sein du Kreis 5 (Industriequartier), aujourd’hui gentrifié par une reconversion des anciennes friches industrielles en logement pour habitants à hauts revenus.…”