Skills and Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367870904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Sako Musterd; Marco Bontje; Jan Rouwendal

Opis

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions. Workers who are attracted to the sector tend to have strong preferences when it comes to the neighbourhoods they want to live in, with factors such as job availability and urban amenities playing a large part in their decision. Skills

Spis treści

Part One 1. Skills and cities; an introductory framework Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje and Jan Rouwendal 2. Housing and amenities as attracting factors for cities and their regions; a literature review Bart Sleutjes 3. Residential sorting of creative knowledge workers in four European knowledge cities Bart Sleutjes Part Two 4. Housing and location preferences of higher educated workers in The Netherlands; an introduction Marco Bontje, Sako Musterd and Jan Rouwendal 5. ‘The’ creative class does not exist: contrasting residential preferences of creative and technical workers in Amsterdam and Eindhoven Willem R. Boterman and Marco Bontje 6. Sorting models of household location and urban amenities Mark van Duijn, Jan Möhlmann, Ismir Mulalic and Jan Rouwendal 7. Integration and policy simulations Jasper Dekkers, Jan Möhlmann and Jan Rouwendal Part Three 8. Housing and location preferences of higher educated international migrants in The Netherlands; an introduction Jan Rouwendal, Sako Musterd and Marco Bontje 9. Stated residential preferences of highly-skilled international migrants Bart Sleutjes and Willem R. Boterman 10. International students and the Netherlands Or Levkovich, Jan Rouwendal and Carla Sá 11. Location choices of highly educated foreign workers; the importance of urban amenities Or Levkovich and Jan Rouwendal 12. Revealed residential preference of international migrants working in creative and knowledge intensive industries; the settlement process Bart Sleutjes and Sako Musterd Part Four 13. Skills and Cities; Jobs and Amenities Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje and Jan Rouwendal

O autorze

Sako Musterd is Professor of Urban Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Marco Bontje is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Jan Rouwendal is Professor at the Department of Spatial Economics of VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.