ENGLISH

Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy

By Leo van den Berg , Willem van Winden , Luis Carvalho , Erwin van Tuijl

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
ISBN
0415586070, 9780415586078
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12431954 bytes)
Series
Regions and Cities, Volume 42
Pages
400\399
Time added
2015-12-07 22:23:51
Urban Regional Economics Business Money Industrial

Description

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable shift towards a knowledge based economy and urban economies come to rely on research and development, financial services, tourism and the creative industries. This book looks at the changing link between manufacturing and knowledge-based activities in urban regions. The authors develop a new framework drawing on insights from organization studies and regional economic literature looking at various international case studies in Western and Eastern Europe, South America and Asia.

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