Urban Management and Economics

This book, from a team of authors at one of Europea (TM)s leading centres for the study of urban and regional studies in Erasmus University provides a view on the challenges cities are confronted with in the twenty first century.

Modern trends that influence the spatial-economic development of urban regions including globalization, climate change, European integration and the information technology revolution have several implications for urban management. Cities and their hinterlands need to be competitive, while securing the balance between economic, social and environmental aims.

The authors see urban management as a co-production of governments, business, non-governmental organizations and citizens and emphasize that urban economics and management can be analysed on various spatial levels: from an area (district) to the metropolitan region and beyond, including global city networks.

Alexander Otgaar is Senior Researcher in the unit of Regional, Port and Transport Economics, part of the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University, the Netherlands

Erik Braun is Assistant Professor in the unit of Regional, Port and Transport Economics, part of the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University, the Netherlands

Leo van den Berg is Director of EURICUR, the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research. He is also Director of the Unit of Regional, Port and Transport Economics, part of the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University, the Netherlands