Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US

'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role oforganizing capacity and distributed leadership 2Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainableentrepreneurs and competitiveness 16Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38Shen Jianfa4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55Edward Blakely5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urbanresilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan KimPART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”:Incheon National University’s strategies based oncombination and permutation 90Cho Dong-Sung7 Human behavior and economic development: culture,psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147Peter Karl Kresl9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emergingeconomies: a case of urban India 160Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentrationin Mexico, 1980–2015 179Jaime Sobrino11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence ofinteractive cities 200Clemente Ruiz Durán12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness inthe age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223Isela OrihuelaIndex 241

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US

'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role oforganizing capacity and distributed leadership 2Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainableentrepreneurs and competitiveness 16Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38Shen Jianfa4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55Edward Blakely5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urbanresilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan KimPART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”:Incheon National University’s strategies based oncombination and permutation 90Cho Dong-Sung7 Human behavior and economic development: culture,psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147Peter Karl Kresl9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emergingeconomies: a case of urban India 160Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentrationin Mexico, 1980–2015 179Jaime Sobrino11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence ofinteractive cities 200Clemente Ruiz Durán12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness inthe age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223Isela OrihuelaIndex 241

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US

'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role oforganizing capacity and distributed leadership 2Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainableentrepreneurs and competitiveness 16Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38Shen Jianfa4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55Edward Blakely5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urbanresilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan KimPART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”:Incheon National University’s strategies based oncombination and permutation 90Cho Dong-Sung7 Human behavior and economic development: culture,psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147Peter Karl Kresl9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emergingeconomies: a case of urban India 160Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentrationin Mexico, 1980–2015 179Jaime Sobrino11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence ofinteractive cities 200Clemente Ruiz Durán12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness inthe age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223Isela OrihuelaIndex 241