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Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City
Exploring the impacts of the severe disruption caused by COVID-19 on major cities, Peter Karl Kresl expertly expands upon the nature of the challenges this has posed. He examines the policies that local leaders can adopt to limit long-lasting negative impacts and renew cities’ vitality and competitivenes
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Exploring the impacts of the severe disruption caused by COVID-19 on major cities, Peter Karl Kresl expertly expands upon the nature of the challenges this has posed. He examines the policies that local leaders can adopt to limit long-lasting negative impacts and renew cities’ vitality and competitiveness.
Kresl conducts a unique investigation into how even the most internationally engaged cities and larger urban regions can decline in competitiveness and identifies opportunities for how they might regain it. Chapters cover measures introduced to protect populations, such as distance working, and how these created issues for central business districts, subsequently decreasing the quality of life for workers dependent on retail and hospitality sales in these areas. Using examples from Europe, North America, and Oceania, the book details the process of regaining urban competitiveness and provides a guide for policymakers on how to manage future existential threats to urban areas.
Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of urban economics and policy. Policymakers will also find essential recommendations for public policy as well as analysis of the urban consequences of social distancing and work-from-home measures.
Kresl conducts a unique investigation into how even the most internationally engaged cities and larger urban regions can decline in competitiveness and identifies opportunities for how they might regain it. Chapters cover measures introduced to protect populations, such as distance working, and how these created issues for central business districts, subsequently decreasing the quality of life for workers dependent on retail and hospitality sales in these areas. Using examples from Europe, North America, and Oceania, the book details the process of regaining urban competitiveness and provides a guide for policymakers on how to manage future existential threats to urban areas.
Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of urban economics and policy. Policymakers will also find essential recommendations for public policy as well as analysis of the urban consequences of social distancing and work-from-home measures.
Critical Acclaim
‘The author, Peter Karl Kresl, is a very experienced scholar in urban competitiveness and has been conducting research projects and publishing books and papers on the topic for almost three decades. In this book, he analyses the pandemic crisis from his angle of expertise, providing the reader with an organic picture drawing on his own experience, observations and on a large array of sources.
It is interesting how the book relates to the scales of the phenomena. The analysis is performed at the macro and micro economic level, and from the scale of the larger urban region to the central core of the city. This allows Kresl to approach also the discussion on post-pandemic recovery, paying attention to the complexity of the processes, while providing examples from several case study cities with whom many readers could relate first hand.
By de-constructing some interpretations that were perhaps prematurely formulated in the heat of the pandemic, it provides us with a much-needed reflection on events that have inevitably changed ways of thinking about life and business in cities, and on the threats that the future poses.’
– Daniele Ietri, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
‘Peter Kresl, a distinguished scholar in urban economics and competitiveness, offers a comprehensive assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the world''s big global cities. His latest publication, derived from his authoritative expertise, delves into the inherent fragility of cities in their global interconnectedness. Kresl’s analysis underscores the imperative of seeking new internal and external economic dimensions to revitalize urban competitiveness. This seminal work provides a reliable framework for comprehending the evolving dynamics of global urban competitiveness.’
– Ed Blakely, University of California, Berkeley, USA
It is interesting how the book relates to the scales of the phenomena. The analysis is performed at the macro and micro economic level, and from the scale of the larger urban region to the central core of the city. This allows Kresl to approach also the discussion on post-pandemic recovery, paying attention to the complexity of the processes, while providing examples from several case study cities with whom many readers could relate first hand.
By de-constructing some interpretations that were perhaps prematurely formulated in the heat of the pandemic, it provides us with a much-needed reflection on events that have inevitably changed ways of thinking about life and business in cities, and on the threats that the future poses.’
– Daniele Ietri, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
‘Peter Kresl, a distinguished scholar in urban economics and competitiveness, offers a comprehensive assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the world''s big global cities. His latest publication, derived from his authoritative expertise, delves into the inherent fragility of cities in their global interconnectedness. Kresl’s analysis underscores the imperative of seeking new internal and external economic dimensions to revitalize urban competitiveness. This seminal work provides a reliable framework for comprehending the evolving dynamics of global urban competitiveness.’
– Ed Blakely, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction to Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City
2 The essentials of post-COVID urban competitiveness
3 The consequences of COVID for the city
4 Impacts on the city center
5 Impacts of the urban region
6 The structure of the recovery
7 How to prepare for another existential attack
Bibliography
1 Introduction to Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City
2 The essentials of post-COVID urban competitiveness
3 The consequences of COVID for the city
4 Impacts on the city center
5 Impacts of the urban region
6 The structure of the recovery
7 How to prepare for another existential attack
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