Content | InTRODUCTION
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- • Labour market and work places
- • Mobility and transport
- • Public life and urban space
- • Housing and neighbourhoods
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By the mid-twentieth century, many of our great cities were in physical decay, losing population, economic activity, key roles in the national economy, and share of national wealth. As we move into the twenty-first century, cities have re-emerged as strategic places for a wide range of projects and dynamics. The Urban Age project allowed us to establish this directly for a set of very diverse cities...
01 | Cities as accumulation of wealth – where are the jobs and who has access to the jobs?
02 | Silicon Valley vs Silicon Alley – rediscovery of the city for face-to-face transactions
03 | Centrifugal versus centripetal dynamics of urbanization (“urban sprawl” versus “urban centrality”)
04 | Knowledge based economies and innovation processes (‘innovative clusters’ and ‘innovative milieus’).
05 | The driving forces of the formation and restructuring of the economic bases of cities and the impact on the patterns of urbanization?
06 | Impact of globalization and IT on the economic base and social structure of cities?
07 | Large scale urban development projects and the role of real estate development.
08 | How can new spatial structures create future synergies between living, working and leisure?
