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9780415586078

Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415586078

  • ISBN10:

    0415586070

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-10-07
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book looks at the changing link between manufacturing and knowledge-based activities in urban regions drawing on insights from organization studies and regional economics and looking at case studies in Europe, South America and Asia.

Author Biography

Willem van Winden works as a professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and is affiliated with the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur) and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS). Leo van den Berg is a professor in regional and urban economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, scientific director of the Euricur and member of the academic committee of the IHS. Luis Carvalho is a doctoral candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam and is affiliated with the Euricur and the IHS. He is an expert in urban management, regional development and economic geography. Erwin van Tuijl is a researcher specialising in regional development and economic geography at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He works for the Euricur and the IHS.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xv
Cities and manufacturing: setting the scenep. 1
Manufacturing and urban development: a frame of analysisp. 4
Dortmund: metal-electro sectorp. 27
Eindhoven: automotive industryp. 58
Munich: automotive industryp. 91
Ostrava: automotive industryp. 124
Paris: automotive industryp. 155
Porto: metal-electro sectorp. l82
Rotterdam: food industryp. 212
São Paulo: automotive industryp. 234
Shanghai: automotive industryp. 266
Turku: shipbuilding industryp. 303
Synthesis and conclusionsp. 328
Indexp. 369
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