Urban Governance and Competitiveness: Improving ‘urban attractiveness’

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Over the last three decades, from the EU to the local level, there has been a great deal of emphasis on improving 'urban competitiveness', in many ways this has become the sin qua non of contemporary urban development. Since the late 1980s the emphasis has increasingly been on the need to develop public-private partnerships and over the last 15 years to involve a range of local interests (stakeholders, citizens, etc) as part of the process to enhance both competitiveness and cohesion. This led to a focus on 'urban governance' and the various forms it can.

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