Urban Competitiveness and US Metropolitan Centres

Kresl, Peter Karl; Singh, Balwant

doi:10.1177/0042098011399592

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“…Injecting environmental sustainability into urban competitiveness moves beyond the economic-centric approach that has dominated the urban competitiveness discourse [8,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. This study builds upon and advances the literature that suggests a need to incorporate non-economic dimensions into urban competitiveness, including environmental sustainability [27,28].…”

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“…Rather, this study uses a separate set of indicators population, employment and income, to build a composite index of urban competitiveness to capture the competition between cities for people, business and high value-added jobs. This has been informed by the study that uses payroll per employee, retail sales and professional services to measure a city's competitiveness [23], but deviates from its economic centricity. Measuring population and employment growth is underpinned by the assumption that the attraction of residents and workers to cities is not driven by economic factors only.…”

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

2015

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This study injects sustainability into competitiveness to inform policy making and planning for contemporary urban development. This is built upon the recent advancement in the scholarship on urban competitiveness that demonstrates a clear deviation from an economic-centric approach to incorporate multiple dimensions of a city's progress. This study has an explicit concern for environmental sustainability and its relationship with urban competitiveness and their conceptual and methodological articulations. Empirically, this study measures the sustainability and competitiveness in Australian cities and reveals that Australia's urban progress is clearly associated with an environmental cost. The findings are useful to inform policy making and planning for building sustainable and competitive cities. Apart from the conventional solutions that focus on urban form change and transport infrastructure improvement, this study suggests a need to explore the opportunities deriving from the emerging smart city planning and practice.

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

2015

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“…The indicators for GCI include high-end industries, occupations, qualifications and income, which combine to reflect a community's capacity of global services. The construction of GCI has been informed by the global city discourse that highlights a city's capacity of advanced producer services in the integrated world economy [10,12] and the urban competitiveness measures of a city's economic performances [36,37]. GMI considers not only foreign-born population as a whole, but also people from non-English-speaking countries and dominant ethnic group, to reflect both stock and diversity of migrants.…”

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Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Hu¹

2015

Economies

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Abstract: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.

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“…Simple arrangement models typically utilize several indicators to capture urban competitiveness as a weighted sum [19,23]. A multi-hierarchy model employs several indicators and categorizes them in terms of similarity to form a multi-hierarchy structure of indicators.…”

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“…In addition, a substantial amount of research on urban competitiveness has focused on Western countries and/or global metropolitan centers [5,12,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Thus, only a limited volume of research has focused on the competitiveness of rapidly changing cities in emerging economies-for example, in cities in China and India-that are potential locations for investment and important centers of international political, economic, and cultural activities [2,6,24,25].…”

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Measuring and Analysis of Urban Competitiveness of Chinese Provincial Capitals in 2010 under the Constraints of Major Function-Oriented Zoning Utilizing Spatial Analysis

Wang

Ren

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Urban competitiveness aids local development by encouraging the exploitation of opportunities for economic development and by enhancing overall performance. Previous studies have evaluated urban competitiveness primarily from an economic perspective and few studies have considered locational conditions as factors that might influence local industrialization and urbanization. In response to the publishing of a national plan for the development of major function-oriented zones (MFOZs) in 2010, the present essay employs MFOZs as constraints to enable a balanced and comprehensive study of urban competitiveness that includes four dimensions of competitiveness: Economic, social-cultural, environmental, and locational (accessibility and hypsography). A four-level hierarchical indicator system and an entropy weighting method were used to assess the urban competitiveness of 31 Chinese provincial capitals based on a spatial analysis of data acquired in 2010 using Geographic Information System technology. The results reveal the overall ranking of provincial capitals in terms of urban competitiveness and their performances with respect to the four dimensions of competitiveness. Unlike OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 3375 previous studies, this analysis was performed by overlaying the strategy of the national MFOZ with the urban competitiveness rankings. The development orientation of each provincial city is discussed according to its characteristics of urban competitiveness under the conditions of a MFOZ.

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Urban Competitiveness and US Metropolitan Centres

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Measuring and Analysis of Urban Competitiveness of Chinese Provincial Capitals in 2010 under the Constraints of Major Function-Oriented Zoning Utilizing Spatial Analysis

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