Throughout Western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda: since the early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination , region-wide spatial planning and metropolitan institutional reform have been promoted in major city-regions. In contrast to the forms of metropolitan gov-ernance that prevailed during the Fordist-Keynesian period, which emphasized admin...

For more than a decade, the OECD has encouraged research and debate on the concept of learning regions, and its relevance to policy interventions intended to promote economic and social development. CRITICAL (City-Regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness and Learning), a Europeanfunded project, has contributed to research on this and related ideas, focusing on five 'city-r...

With accelerating urbanization, urban competitiveness has become a worldwide academic focus. Previous studies always focused on economic factors but ignored social elements when measuring urban competitiveness. In this paper, a city was considered as a whole containing different units such as departments, individuals and economic activities, which interact with each other and affect its economi...

Michael Porter offered a model that allows examining why some states are more competitive and why some industries within states are more competitive than others are. In this way, Porter‟s diamond model of national competitiveness was detected as a model with which to assess the sources of competitive advantages of an industry in a particular country and it can help realise the competitive statu...

Through the research, design datas are provided for the enhancing product performance and competitiveness. In the paper, based on problems that exist in the construction of concrete mixing station, actual conditions of Tengzhou city and research results in China United cement plant, concrete mixing station’s overall structure is designed. And the structure’s harmonic response and dynamic proper...

In the scenario of technological changes that were introduced by the waves of globalisation and the construction of an Information Society, together with recent national distresses, Brazilian cities face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development. Having in mind this complex landscape, this article seeks to analyse the experience Rio Operations Centre (ROC) of ...

Global cities, the command and control centres of the integrated world economy, are facing a sustainability paradox of greater global competition and greater environmental pressure. This study explores the policy approaches to the sustainability paradox by integrating environmental sustainability and economic competitiveness into the development strategy for “the global city”, based on a case s...

The article studies the problem of selecting research methodology a city geo-brand in order to identify optimal methodological tools for assessing its competitiveness. author’s interpretation concept has been offered, features choice, algorithm assessment, and evaluation parameters diagnostics methods analyzed. comparative analysis current competitiveness estimation models made. study concludes...