Reflecting on two decades of competitiveness-oriented urban policies in Europe, this book investigates the current challenges cities face to sustain their economic position and how this can be balanced with social progress and environmental improvements. Complementing previous surveys on local and urban development and competitiveness-based strategies, this volume provides longer term views on the evolution of such policies at the city level, from the personal perspective of city officials in eight European cities. More concretely, it looks at how the urban dimension in EU policies have evolved over time, the kinds of urban policy supported by the EU over the last two decades and how cities have been involved with this process. The book investigates the portfolios of competitiveness-oriented policies which have been developed by European cities and how they see the link between urban/spatial development policies and sustainable competitiveness. Finally the book fleshes out a number of challenges and initiatives taken by the eight European cities and their governments in the face of current challenges in order to pave the way towards more competitive and sustainable urban economies."

Globalization and the transition to a knowledge and information society have considerably strengthened the position of cities as nerve centres of the new economy. However, these trends have also sharpened competition between cities. The intense competition for mobile investments has meant that not only local authorities, but also national and regional governments, and even the European Commission, have had to focus their attention on urban policy and development. Yet despite the resulting economic progress, many cities are also dealing with a multitude of social problems and an emerging dual society. This volume compares the cities of Eindhoven, Antwerp, Helsinki, Malmo, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Strasbourg and Utrecht to analyse the strategies that have been developed to combat social problems at the various levels of public administration, private parties, NGOs and community groups. It examines how social problems threaten the attractiveness of cities and how different urban revitalization projects deal with this.

This work aims to respond to the discussion of the problem of achieving efficient metropolitan government in a competitive climate by analyzing the attempts of several European urban regions - Antwerp, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lille, Lisbon, Strasbourg and Valencia - to meet that need.

Presents a comparative study on tourism development and strategy in six upcoming and two established destinations.

De belangrijkste aspecten van de interne geneeskunde worden beschreven vanuit verpleegkundig perspectief. Er is aandacht voor kennis, maar ook voor vaardigheden en attitude. De zorgsituaties (met daarbinnen omschreven verpleegsituaties) staan daarbij steeds centraal.

His eyes fill with tears when he thinks of all he left behind-a stream of faces never explored, a whole chapter of his life lived in a cloud, and the whole time, that gnawing sensation that something wasn't right. Day after day, year after year. And then, in the blink of an eye, everything changed...