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Urban Competitiveness: Theory and Practice book cover

1st Edition

Urban Competitiveness Theory and Practice

By Peter Karl Kresl, Daniele Ietri Copyright 2014
158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governments have increasingly been focused on staving off fiscal collapse. Mayors and local administrations have become very creative and active in looking after the state of their local economy and have developed extensive agencies for inter-city cooperation... Read more

Daniele Ietri is Lecturer in the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy

Peter Kresl is Charles P. Vaughan Chair in Economics at Bucknell University, USA

Biography

Peter Kresl is Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, USA.

Daniele Ietri is assistant professor of Geography at eCampus University, Italy, and senior consultant at hep-business e persone, Milan, Italy.

"This book is a worthwhile addition to the urban competitiveness literature given one of the authors’ long-standing contributions. It provides important insights into facets of urban economics for scholars of urban studies."

Swasti Vardhan Mishra, Visva-Bharati, India, Urban Studies Journal

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