Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy

by Leo van den Berg, Willem Van Winden, Erwin van Tuijl, et al.

Book Overview

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable shift towards a knowledge based economy and urban economies come to rely on research and development, financial services, tourism and the creative industries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041571009X
• ISBN13: 9780415710091
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"