City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications

City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications

Release Date: October, 2011|Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 322
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-174-0
ISBN13: 9781613501740|ISBN10: 1613501749|EISBN13: 9781613501757
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Description:

Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and inefficiencies.

City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications uses information science perspectives to improve working subsystems in transportation, sewage, electricity, water, communication, education, health, governance, and infrastructure since their efficient and synchronized operation is vital for a competitive city. This pioneering approach will interest researchers, professionals, and policymakers in urban economy, regional planning, and information science disciplines who wish to improve the competitiveness of their cities.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • City branding
  • City Competitiveness and Infrastructure
  • City Subsystems
  • Information Science and City Competitiveness
  • Information Science and City Subsystems
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Regional Planning
  • Role of GIS in City Competitiveness
  • Urban Economy
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The book makes an important contribution to city competitiveness literature, highlighting the role of urban systems and bringing together the recent research findings from many disciplines in a single edited collection. This book is an invaluable resource as it highlights alternatives and approaches in urban systems technology and applications for not only academics, but also city administrators and the urban systems development industry. The book also provides useful directions for policy-makers to set sensible strategies for building prosperous and competitive cities for their citizens.

– Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Melih Bulu, Ph.D., has worked at various sections of the private sector as both a professional and an entrepreneur. While doing these, he has also worked on competitiveness related projects for cities during the last decade as an Academician and a Consultant. He has visited various cities to examine their competitiveness, in terms of their infrastructures and for consultancy purposes. Since 2004, Dr. Bulu has been the General Coordinator of International Competitiveness Research Institute (URAK), an NGO working on economic competitiveness of cities and countries. He is leading various competitiveness related projects on cities in URAK. He especially likes working on the improvement of cities in order to make them competitive. Dr. Bulu teaches strategy related courses at Istanbul Sehir University. His main interest areas are city competitiveness, regional development, game theory, cluster theory, and organization theory. He has various publications in academic and popular media.
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Editorial Advisory Board

• Akyel, J., IBM, Turkey
• Karatas, M., Istanbul Development Agency, Turkey
• Türkay, M., Koç University, Turkey
• Yigitcanlar, T., Queensland University of Technology, Australia