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Do Cities Create Wealth?

其他書名	A Critique of New Urban Thinking and the Role of Public Policy for Cities
出版	Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DtfzjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋These arguments centre on the themes of clustering, the rise of the global city- state, and the importance of attracting educated workers or what has come to be known as the "cre- ative class". [...] Yet our cities, on the front lines in the search for innovative sustainable solutions to the challenges of the global age, lack the means to contribute fully to the updating and redesigning of our physical and social infrastructure" (Bradford 2002). [...] The same theme runs through a number of other studies, published by such places as the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, and the Canadian Urban Institute. [...] These arguments centre on the themes of cluster- ing, the rise of the global city-state, and the importance of attracting educated workers - or what has come to be known as the "creative class". [...] We get the benefits of external economies of scale on both the production and consumption side of the equation.