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Informationen zum Autor Josef W. Konvitz is Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, and Visiting Professor at King's College London Klappentext Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A city-centred strategy to lift urban productivity must reduce deficits of urban innovation and of infrastructure investment: the new limits to growth. The outlook of more frequent and more costly crises to come - environmental, health, and even economic - makes these deficits more alarming. Yet governments seem incapable of setting out a vision for the future of cities. Things may get worse before they get better.We may need radical reforms to get practical solutions to improve urban economic performance and to reduce the impact of urban disasters and crises: our major challenges. Putting cities at the centre of policy will challenge how governments, structured by sectors and levels, work. Paradigm shifts in economic governance have been undertaken successfully in the past; we are just out of practice. Drawing on dozens of reports from the OECD to illuminate recent trends, emerging risks and initiatives to improve decision-making, Cities and crisis is about the future, starting where we are. This book is essential for anyone interested in the lessons of the 2008 crisis for the future of cities in the twenty-first century, and is suitable for classroom use in politics, urban studies, development and business. Zusammenfassung An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century! their role in society! and their contribution to the financial crisis -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: If cities are like dynamos, why is the economy sputtering?1. We are where we are, but how did we get here?2. Housing and cities: toward what future?3. Infrastructure and innovation: new limits to growth?4. Managing space better is the imperative: the problem of shrinking cities and economics5. Jobs to people: livability, governance and strategic planning.Part II: Preparing for an era of crises6. The vulnerability and resilience of cities7. Regulatory governance, risk and the new security economiesPart III: Cities and paradigms for economic governance8. How the west overcomes crises, reduces risks and copes with uncertainty9. Paradigms for economic governance and how cities grew bigger and better10. Cities and nation-states in the urban age: will interdependence reshape rules for the twenty-first century?Index...
