The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2013

Edited by Pengfei Ni, Peter Karl Kresl and Wei Liu

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Abstract: The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2013 is an empirical study and evaluation of the sustainable competitiveness of 500 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives. This one-of-a-kind resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed, and involve urban economics, geography, urban studies, regional economics and many other fields. Using a sophisticated methodology and a team of 100 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasury of information with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of each city in relation to each other.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781782548027
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Conceptual framework and analytical methods , pp 3-14

Pengfei Ni, Xiaolan Yang and Peter Karl Kresl

Ch 2 Global urban sustainable competitiveness index , pp 15-27

Wei Liu, Mian Li, Jie Yang and Shaokun Wei

Ch 3 Global urban sustainable competitiveness: a comprehensive analysis , pp 28-46

Jie Wei and Pengfei Ni

Ch 4 Global urban sustainable competitiveness: a regional analysis , pp 47-68

Jie Yang Kai Liu

Ch 5 Global urban sustainable competitivness and urban GDP per capita , pp 69-82

Anquan Zhang

Ch 6 Global urban sustainable competitiveness and urban population size , pp 83-98

Chao Li

Ch 7 Global urban sustainable competitiveness: characteristics of functional centers , pp 99-114

Qingbin Li

Ch 8 The specialized differences: one key vector in urban competitiveness , pp 117-126

Saskia Sassen

Ch 9 Social and technological innovations in the competitiveness of cities , pp 127-160

Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka

Ch 10 Green cities: examples of governing for green growth from OECD countries , pp 161-171

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Margo Cointreau and Xiao Wang

Ch 11 Institutions and urban competitiveness - a Doing Business perspective , pp 172-180

Doing Business Group in the World Bank

Ch 12 The challenge of world city network pattern changes on the world city network analysis , pp 181-193

Peter J. Taylor

Ch 13 Population aging and urban competitiveness , pp 194-206

Peter Karl Kresl

Ch 14 Driving factors of urban prosperity: an empirical analysis of global cities , pp 207-233

Pengfei Ni

Ch 15 Patterns of the global cities: present and future , pp 234-242

Pengfei Ni and Peter Karl Kresl

Ch 16 The state of sustainable competitiveness of 500 cities , pp 245-264

Global Urban Competitiveness Assessment Team

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