Cities and crisis / Josef W. Konvitz.

"Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A city-centred strategy to lift urban productivity must reduce deficits of urban innovation and of infrastructure investment: the new limits to growth. The outlook of more frequent and more costly crises to come - environmental, health, and even economic - makes these deficits more alarming. Yet governments seem incapable of setting out a vision for the future of cities. Things may get worse before they get better. We may need radical reforms to get practical solutions to improve urban economic performance and to reduce the impact of urban disasters and crises: our major challenges. Putting cities at the centre of policy will challenge how governments, structured by sectors and levels, work. Paradigm shifts in economic governance have been undertaken successfully in the past; we are just out of practice."-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover ; Cities and crisis; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the difference a crisis makes; PART I: If cities are like dynamos, why is the economy sputtering?; 1 We are where we are, but how did we get here?; 2 Housing and cities: toward what future?; 3 Infrastructure and innovation: new limits to growth; 4 Managing space better: the problem of shrinking cities and economies; 5 Jobs to people: livability, governance, and strategic planning; PART II: Making cities safer; 6 The vulnerability and resilience of cities

7 Regulatory governance, risk, and the new security economiesPART III: Cities and paradigms for economic governance; 8 How the West overcomes crises, reduces risks, and copes with uncertainty; 9 Paradigms for economic governance: how cities grew bigger and better; 10 Cities and nation-states in the urban age: will inter-dependence reshape rules for the twenty-first century?; Index

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