Globalization and Urban Implosion Creating New Competitive Advantage /

• Main Author: Dalla Longa, Remo. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Economics.; Geography.; Regional planning.; Regional economics.; Economics/Management Science.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Economic Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70512-3

In the past twenty years, globalization has led to an obsolescence of economic and social urban functions. Large cities face an implosion of old functions and, thus, have a clear need to replace old functions with new ones, especially within complex urban areas with a high concentration of both publ...

Table of Contents:

• Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention
• Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies
• Participation and the Socio-political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments
• Case Studies.