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Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Economy

Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Economy Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Econom y 1 Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Economy Dennis A. Rondinelli ETROPOLITAN areas in the United States will face complex challenges during the twenty-f irst century in building and maintaining their economic competitive- ness. The forces shaping the economies of metropolitan areas are well known. Economic globalization—resulting from increasing interna- tional trade and investment and unprecedented mobility of all factors of production across national borders —is being driven by relentless technological innovation. Globalization, technological innovation, and declining costs of communications and transportation all contrib- ute to the rapid growth of services, the emergence of knowledge industries linked through virtual networks and supply chains, and new methods of production and distribution. The worldwide demand for rapid delivery of goods and services requires firms everywhere to adopt agile business practices and integrated logistics systems. In this New Economy, those metropolitan areas that quickly embrace tech- nological advances in communications, transportation, and logistics will thrive; those that do not will stagnate and decline. The New Economy will require metropolitan areas to develop or attract globally competitive firms and better-educated and higher-skilled workers and provide modern transportation and communications http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Economy

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 8 (1): 21 – Apr 1, 2001
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Taylor & Francis
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1466-1853
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1063-0732
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10.1080/10630730120052154
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Abstract

Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Econom y 1 Making Metropolitan Areas Competitive and Sustainable in the New Economy Dennis A. Rondinelli ETROPOLITAN areas in the United States will face complex challenges during the twenty-f irst century in building and maintaining their economic competitive- ness. The forces shaping the economies of metropolitan areas are well known. Economic globalization—resulting from increasing interna- tional trade and investment and unprecedented mobility of all factors of production across national borders —is being driven by relentless technological innovation. Globalization, technological innovation, and declining costs of communications and transportation all contrib- ute to the rapid growth of services, the emergence of knowledge industries linked through virtual networks and supply chains, and new methods of production and distribution. The worldwide demand for rapid delivery of goods and services requires firms everywhere to adopt agile business practices and integrated logistics systems. In this New Economy, those metropolitan areas that quickly embrace tech- nological advances in communications, transportation, and logistics will thrive; those that do not will stagnate and decline. The New Economy will require metropolitan areas to develop or attract globally competitive firms and better-educated and higher-skilled workers and provide modern transportation and communications

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Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2001

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