Quality of Life and City Competitiveness

Rogerson, Robert

doi:10.1080/0042098993303

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“…The increasing interest in urban and regional competitive advantage has resulted in a substantial number of ranking lists, in which cities and regions are compared on the basis of their internal characteristics, such as their economic performance (Kresl and Singh, 1999), global connectivity (Taylor, 2004), creativity and innovativeness (Florida, 2005), and quality of life (Rogerson, 1999). This benchmarking of cities and regions is not only found in academia and commercial research but is also strongly embedded in public policy and popular culture.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealed competition for greenfield investments between European regions

Burger

Knaap

Wall

2012

Journal of Economic Geography

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Revealed competition for greenfield investments between European regions

Burger

Knaap

Wall

2012

Journal of Economic Geography

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“…In early research, the concept and definitions of urban competitiveness emphasize the economic dimension [4,19,35]. Later, roles of other factors, such as innovation and knowledge, the Information Communication Technology sector, the physical environment, quality of life, and sustainability are given more attention when defining urban competitiveness [5,26,34,35].…”

Section: Environment Aspect: Government-led Planning Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies for Regeneration of Urban Villages in Hometown of Oversea-Chinese

Li¹

2017

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Abstract:Hometown of Oversea-Chinese is a special phenomenon in the history of Chinese near-modern development, mainly in the east and south coast of China. At the beginning of last century, a large number of coastal residents moved overseas for living. After decades of efforts, they invested back hometown to build houses. These residence layouts consist both local traditional culture and foreign features, forming a special landscape. In recent years, economic globalization has promoted rapid urbanization, which leads massive population flowing from rural to urban areas. Cities eroded the countryside field and evacuated the rural labor force, leading to a large number of abandoned deteriorated urban villages, including the hometown of Oversea-Chinese. This paper focuses on the regeneration of urban villages in hometown of Oversea-Chinese. With the influence of global industrialization and rapid urbanization in recent decades in China, a large number of Oversea-Chinese residence groups have become empty and decayed urban villages gradually. However, they are different from urban villages in other parts of China, as they have unique cultural features and historical value, therefore research on the regeneration of this type of urban villages not only contribute to local economic development but also is closely related to the hot topic of how to maintain cultural differences under the process of globalization. We surveyed their formation process, historical and cultural characteristics and put forward some strategies of regeneration from the three aspects of society, economy and environment: explore history culture to strengthen the bond with Oversea-Chinese, develop cultural and creative industries and appropriate tourism to promote economic activities and improve the environment by government-led planning.

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“…According to Rogerson (1999), a knowledge city's success is sustained by knowledge workers, who have to be allured by the city itself. Only by offering a good quality of living will knowledge workers be interested in enhancing the cities' knowledge base (Van Winden, Van den Berg, & Pol, 2007).…”

Section: Knowledge Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%