The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts; media; entertainment; creative business services; architects; publishers; designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT; RD; finance; law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate "creative knowledge" cities. The editors compare the socio-economic developments; experiences and strategies in 13 urban regions across Europe: Amsterdam; Barcelona; Birmingham; Budapest; Dublin; Helsinki; Leipzig; Milan; Munich; Poznan; Riga; Sofia and Toulouse. These have different histories and roles; include capital and non-capital cities of different sizes; represent cities with different economic structures; and different cultural; political and welfare state traditions. Through this wide set of examples; Making Competitive Cities informs the debate about creative and knowledge-intensive industries; economic development; and competitiveness policies. It focuses on which metropolitan regions have a better chance to develop as "creative knowledge regions" and which do not; as well as investigating why this is so and what can policy do to influence change. Chapter authors from thirteen European institutions rigorously evaluate; reformulate and empirically test assumptions about cities and their potential for attracting creative and knowledge-intensive industries. As well as a systematic empirical comparison of developments related to these industries; the book examines the pathways that cities have followed and surveys both the negative and positive impacts of different prevailing conditions. Special Features: Analyses link between knowledge-intensive sectors and urban competitiveness Offers evidence from 13 European urban regions drawn from a major research project Establishes a new benchmark for academic and policy debates in a fast-moving field
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Pleased I PurchasedBy TnafbratLovely book. Many artists freeze when it comes to portraits or life drawing. Perhaps it is a mental fear of attempting to create an image of something that is real. live and with personality. Also. creating a life drawing is just different from sketching a tree. or flower or any other still life until you get past the fact that you are drawing a HUMAN. The book has some good concepts and steps for portrait/human figure artwork. Nice explanations on washes and shading and methods of initially sketching the portrait without becoming overly wrapped up in creating photographic details. This is a good reference book to have.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. New artist who want a better understanding of colored pencil technique will be pleased to ...By jujujebFor anyone new to colored pencil portraits. this is a must have. I have been drawing portraits for many years primarily in graphite and charcoal and slowly ventured into the world of prismacolor. New artist who want a better understanding of colored pencil technique will be pleased to find that it is all here in this book. Thing such as suggested color combinations to mimic lifelike skintones or a great section on how to make the over all piece (compisition) more appealing to the audiance. And a great section on capturing light which is important in all portrait mediums. However for those who have no experiance with portraits. the book lacks in depth instructions on the actual drawing of a portrait. Although it give great instructions on how to lay out and choose the proper colors as well as proper application. no real instruction on how to DRAW a lifelike resemblence is present. It does touch shortly on tracing and graphing. but for those who truly wish to capture the likeness through traditional drawing will be dissappointed (not that i have anything against tracing. but tracing can prevent an artist from improving technique). However. there is a solution. This book flows perfectly with Lee Hammonds "Lifelike portraits from photography" which goes heavily in to detail on how to achieve very accurate line drawing using the graphing technique (i have had my copy for about 20 years and cherish it). With the combination of these two books and practice i know artist of any level can achieve beautiful portraits.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I really like this bookBy CustomerI really like this book. It has good hints. and a good discussion about skin tone colors. I liked the tone of the book. the approach is very easy going. I really liked the addition of discussing portraits/art as a business.The cons:There wasnt a discussion about various age groups. wrinkles. freckles or skin textures. Most of the subjects are children or teens.There was only one subject that was with a darker skin tone. and honestly I wanted to see more examples.Over all. I will definitely go back to this book for reference.
