Assessing quality of place: A comparative analysis of Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 501-517

  Trip, Jan Jacob ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVENESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; URBAN ECONOMY;

AMSTERDAM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35948959762     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: 14679906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00362.x     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Baris, M. (2003). Review: Richard Florida, The rise of the creative class (and how it's transforming work, leisure, community, and everyday life). The Next American City, 1, February 2003 (http//:wWw.americancity.org).
2. Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A., & Maskell, P. (2004). Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation. Progress in Human Geography, 28(1), 31-56.
3. Bertolini, L., & Salet, W. (2003). Planning concepts for cities in transition: Regionalization of urbanity in the Amsterdam structure plan. Planning Theory and Practice, 4(2), 131-146.
4. Bhagat, R. S. (2004). The rise of the creative class, and how it's transforming work, leisure, community, and everyday life [book review]. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49(2), 321-325.
5. Boschma, R. A. (2005a). Competitiveness of regions from an evolutionary perspective. Regional Studies, 38(9), 1001-1014.
6. Boschma, R. A. (2005b). Proximity and innovation: A critical assessment. Regional Studies, 39(1), 61-74.
7. Brooks, D. (2000). Bobos in paradise: The new upper class and how they got there. Touchstone: New York.
8. Castells, M. (1989). The informational city: Information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process. Oxford/Malden, MA: Blackwell.
9. Clark, T. N., Lloyd, R., Wong, K.K., & Jain, P. (2002). Amenities drive urban growth. Journal of Urban Affairs, 24(5), 493-515.
10. Festervand, T. A., Lumpkin, J. R., & Tosh, D. S. (1988). "Quality of life" in the industrial site location decision. Journal of Real Estate Development, 4(1), 19-27.
11. Florida, R. (2000). Competing in the age of talent: Quality of place and the new economy. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University.
12. Florida, R. (2002a). The rise of the creative class, and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. New York: Basic Books.
13. Florida, R. (2002b). Rebuilding Lower Manhattan for the creative age: Implications for the Greater New York Region. Prepared for the Regional Plan Association and the Civic Alliance, obtained from http//:www.creativeclass.org (29 August 2006).
14. Florida, R. (2004a). America's looming creativity crisis. Harvard Business Review, 82(10), 122-130.
15. Florida, R. (2004b). Creative class war; how the GOP's anti-elitism could ruin America's economy. Washington Monthly, January/February 2004.
16. Florida, R. (2004c). Revenge of the squelchers: The great creative class debate. Obtained from http//:www.creativeclass.org (29 August 2006).
17. Florida, R. (2005a). Cities and the creative class. New York/London: Routledge.
18. Florida, R. (2005b). The flight of the creative class. New York: Harper Collins.
19. Florida, R., & Gates, G. (2001). Technology and tolerance: The importance of diversity to high-technology growth. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
20. Florida, R., & Mellander, C. (2007). There goes the neighborhood: How and why bohemians, artists and gays a affect regional housing values. Obtained from http//:www.creativeclass.org (6 July 2007).
21. Florida, R., & Tinagli, I. (2004). Europe in the creative age. Pittsburgh, PA/London: Carnegie Mellon Software Industry Center/Demos.
22. Foster, R. (1977). Economic and quality of life factors in industrial location decisions. Social Indicators Research, 4, 247-265.
23. Gertler, M. S. (2004). Creative cities: What are they for, how do they work, and how do we build them ? Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks.
24. Glaeser, E. L. (2005). Review of Richard Florida's The rise of the creative class. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35, 593-596.
25. Glaeser, E. L., Kolko, J., & Saiz, A. (2001). Consumer city. Journal of Economic Geography, 1, 27-50.
26. Grabher, G. (2002). The project ecology of advertising: Tasks, talents and teams. Regional Studies, 36(3), 245-262.
27. Hall, P. (1998). Cities in civilization. New York: Pantheon.
28. Hall, P. (2001). Global city-regions in the twenty-first century. In A. J. Scott (Ed.), Global city-regions; Trends, theory, policy (pp. 59-77). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
29. Harvey, D. (1989). The condition of postmodernity. Cambridge MA/Oxford: Blackwell.
30. Healey & Baker (2001). European e-location monitor. London: Author.
31. Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. New York: Random House.
32. Jacobs, J. (1969). The economy of cities. New York: Random House.
33. Kloosterman, R. C. (1996). Double Dutch: Polarization trends in Amsterdam and Rotterdam after 1980. Regional Studies, 30(5), 467-476.
34. Kloosterman, R. (2001). Ruimte voor reflectie. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
35. Kloosterman, R. C. (2004). Recent employment trends in the cultural industries in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht: A first exploration. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 95(2), 243-252.
36. Kloosterman, R., & Trip, J. J. (2006). Planning for quality?Assessing the role of quality of place in developing high-speed railway stations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Urban Conditions and Life Chances, 6-8 July 2006, Amsterdam.
37. Kresl, P. K. (1995). The determinants of urban competitiveness: A survey. In P. K. Kresl & G. Gappert (Eds.), North American cities and the global economy: Challenges and opportunities (pp. 45-68). Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage.
38. Lambooy, J. G. (1993). The European city: From carrefour to organisational nexus. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 84(4), 258-268.
39. Landry, C. (2000). The creative city: A toolkit for urban innovators. London: Earthscan.
40. Lehmann, C. (2003). Class acts. Raritan, 22(4), 147-167.
41. Malanga, S. (2004). The curse of the creative class: A new age theory of urban development amounts to economic snake oil. The Wall Street Journal, 19 January 2004.
42. Malmberg, A., & Maskell, P. (2002). The elusive concept of localization economies: Towards a knowledge-based theory of spatial clustering. Environment and Planning A, 34, 429-449.
43. Marlet, G. A., & van Woerkens, C. M. (2004a). Het economisch belang van de creatieve klasse. ESB, 89(4435), 280-283.
44. Marlet, G., & van Woerkens, C. (2004b). Atlas voor gemeenten 2004. Utrecht: Stichting Atlas voor gemeenten.
45. Marshall, A. (1920). Industry and trade: A study of industrial technique and business organization, and of their influences on the conditions of various classes and nations. London: Macmillan.
46. McCann, E. J. (2004). 'Best places': Interurban competition, quality of life and popular media discourse. Urban Studies, 41(10), 1909-1929.
47. Musterd, S. (2006). Segregation, urban space and the resurgent city. Urban Studies, 43(8), 1325-1340.
48. Nathan, M. (2005). The wrong stuff: Creative class theory, diversity and city performance. Centre for Cities Discussion Paper no.1, obtained from http//:www.ippr.org (1 March 2006).
49. O+S [Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Onderzoek en Statistiek] (2004). Fact sheet, 4 October 2004, Amsterdam.
50. Pacione, M. (1982). The use of objective and subjective measures of life quality in human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 6, 495-514.
51. Pacione, M. (1990). Urban liveability: A review. Urban Geography, 11(1), 1-30.
52. Peck, J. (2005). Struggling with the creative class. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4), 740-770.
53. Portney, K. E. (2003). Taking sustainable cities seriously: Economic development, the environment, and quality of life in American cities. Cambridge MA/London: The MIT Press.
54. Rausch, S., & Negrey, C. (2006). Does the creative engine run?A consideration of the effect of creative class on economic strength and growth. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28(5), 473-489.
55. Reich, R. (1991). The work of nations. New York: Knopf.
56. Richards, J. (2007). Placemaking for the creative class. Landscape Architecture, 97 (2), 32-38.
57. Rogerson, R. J. (1999). Quality of life and city competitiveness. Urban Studies, 36(5), 969-985.
58. Sassen, S. (2001). The global city: New York, London, Tokyo (2nd ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
59. Sawicki, D. (2003). Economic growth: The rise of the creative class, and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life [book review]. Journal of the American Planning Association, 69(1), 90-91.
60. Schumpeter, J. A. (1939). Business cycles: A theoretical, historical, and statistical analysis of the capitalist process. New York/London: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
61. Scott, A. J. (2000). The cultural economy of cities. New York: Sage.
62. Scott, A. J. (2006). Creative cities: Conceptual issues and policy questions. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28(1), 1-17.
63. Simmie, J. (2005). Innovation and space: A critical review of the literature. Regional Studies, 39(6), 789-804.
64. Storper, M. (1997). The regional world: Territorial development in a global economy. New York/London: The Guilford Press.
65. Storper, M., & Venables, A. J. (2002). Buzz: The economic force of the city. Paper presented at the DRUID Summer Conference on 'Industrial dynamics of the new and old economy-Who is embracing whom?' 6-8 June 2002, Copenhagen/Elsinore.
66. Thiel, J. (2004). Ambivalences of the creative class: Space, reflexivity and the restructuring of the German advertising industry. Paper presented at the 44th ERSA congress on 'Regions and fiscal federalism', 25-29 August 2004, Oporto.
67. Trip, J. J. (2007). What makes a city? Planning for 'quality of place'. The case of high-speed train station area redevelopment. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
68. Van Wilsem, J., Wittebrood, K., & de Graaf, N. D. (2006). Socioeconomic dynamics of neighborhoods and the risk of crime victimization: A multilevel study of improving, declining, and stable areas in the Netherlands. Social Problems, 53(2), 226-247.