Second Rank Cities in Europe: Structural Dynamics and Growth Potential

ISBN-13: 9781138951044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 155 str.

Roberto Camagni; Roberta Capello

Opis

In periods of economic downtown, it is second-rank cities which outperform first-rate cities, recording annual GDP growth rates which are much less negative than those of their capitals. In explaining this phenomenon, linking urban dynamics to agglomeration theories seems the most interesting approach. This volume claims that interpretation of current dynamics in European urban systems would benefit from exploiting the traditional concept of agglomeration economies, expanding it to investigate the missing link between agglomeration economies and urban dynamics. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Second-Rank City Dynamics: Theoretical Interpretations Behind Their Growth Potentials  1. City Size and Economic Performance: Is Bigger Better, Small More Beautiful or Middling Marvellous?  2. The Rise of Second-Rank Cities: What Role for Agglomeration Economies?  3. Borrowed Size, Agglomeration Shadows and Cultural Amenities in North-West Europe  4. Related Variety and Regional Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of European Urban Regions  5. Assessing Polycentric Urban Systems in the OECD: Country, Regional and Metropolitan Perspectives  6. First- and Second-Tier Cities in Regional Agglomeration Models  7. Polycentric Metropolitan Development: From Structural Assessment to Processual Dimensions

O autorze

Roberto Camagni is Professor of Urban Economics at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is a Past-President of the European Regional Science Association, and of GREMI . He is the author of many scientific papers, and a textbook in Urban Economics, published in Italian, French, and Spanish. Roberta Capello is a Professor in Regional Economics at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is a Past-President of the Regional Science Association International . She is the editor in chief of Papers in Regional Science, and of the Italian Journal of Regional Science. She is the author of many scientific papers, and the editor of Territorial Patterns of Innovation: An Inquiry on the Knowledge Economy in European Regions (Routledge, 2013).