8 February 2002
LSE London hosted a series of seminars on the Competitiveness of Major European Metropolitan Regions. Given high interest in the presentations of the GEMACA II seminars, we have made them available here, including presentations from the following speakers:
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Ian Gordon and Paul Cheshire, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Dominique Lecomte and Vincent Gollain, Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de la Région d'Ile de France (IAURIF)
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Jeremy Kelly, Jones Lang LaSalle
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Brendan William, Dublin Institute of Technology
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Wolfgang Knapp, Institut für Landes und Stadtentwicklungsforschung des Landes (ILS)
More information can also be found at the IAURIF| website.
Ian Gordon, Introduction: What is Regional Competitiveness | (PPT)
Paul Cheshire, The Functional Urban Regions: What and why?| (PPT)
Dominique Lecomte, Economic Position of the Functional Urban Regions| (PPT)
Jeremy Kelly,
The Economic performance of the Major European Metro Regions. Improving their Competitveness -Commercial Real Estate Development and the "City Offer"| (PPT)
See also a related paper by Jones Lang LaSalle, Commercial Real Estate Development and 'The City Offer'| (PDF)
Vincent Gollain, Science and Technology in Europe| (PPT)
Brendan William and Vincent Gollain, Economic performance of major European metropolises: The role of Clusters| (PPT)
Wolfgang Knapp, Urban regional Guidance and Management Structures: a precondition for the competitiveness of metropolitan regions| (PPT)