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Recasting the City into City-Regions: Place Promotion, Competitiveness Benchmarking and the Quest for Urban SupremacyFrancis J. GreeneUniversity of Warwick - Warwick Business School Paul TraceyUniversity of Warwick - Warwick Business School Marc CowlingUniversity of Sussex - Institute for Employment Studies Growth and Change, Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp. 1-22, March 2007 Abstract: This essay critically examines twenty-two studies designed to measure the competitiveness of cities and city-regions. We suggest that while this research may show statistical correlations between different dimensions of competitiveness, there is little in the way of causation. More fundamentally, our main point is to question the utility of such studies. Regional disparities in terms of wealth and living standards are well known; simply recasting the spatial scale to the city or the city-region does not change the underlying fundamentals of regional performance.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 22 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: December 11, 2007Suggested CitationContact Information
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