The Making of a World City (eBook)

London 1991 to 2021

Greg Clark (Autor)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-60973-6 (ISBN)

Infos

After two decades of evolution and transformation, London had become one of the most open and cosmopolitan cities in the world. The success of the 2012 Olympics set a high water-mark in the visible success of the city, while its influence and soft power increased in the global systems of trade, capital, culture, knowledge, and communications.

The Making of a World City: London 1991 - 2021 sets out in clear detail both the catalysts that have enabled London to succeed and also the qualities and underlying values that are at play: London's openness and self-confidence, its inventiveness, influence, and its entrepreneurial zeal. London's organic, unplanned, incremental character, without a ruling design code or guiding master plan, proves to be more flexible than any planned city can be.

Cities are high on national and regional agendas as we all try to understand the impact of global urbanisation and the re-urbanisation of the developed world. If we can explain London's successes and her remaining challenges, we can unlock a better understanding of how cities succeed.

Greg Clark is a Londoner and expert on world cities. He works as an advisor to OECD, World Bank, Brookings Institution, ULI and more than 20 major cities around the world (including Auckland, Barcelona, Brisbane, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Toronto) but learned what he knows from working in London as a leader in city agencies during the period covered by this book. He has written four books for the OECD and several published reports for the Brookings Institution, British Council and ULI.

Inhalt

About the Author ix

Foreword by Martin Simmons xi

Preface by Rosemary Feenan and Robert Gordon Clark xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Section I London in 1991 - Setting the scene

1 Introduction: Honor Chapman and London:World City 3

2 London prior to 1991: The back story 11

Planning for a new world city 12

The rise of finance and a new rationale for post-industrial
London 13

A hiatus of government 16

The LDDC and a new era of pragmatism 16

3 The 1991 London:World City report and its message about
London 19

Old rivals, new rivals 22

An agenda for metropolitan governance 24

Brand new: The promotion of London 26

The future knowledge economy 29

Section II The evolution of London, 1991 to 2015

4 The internationalisation of London's economy
35

Internationalisation of London's labour force 39

The global financial crisis and after 43

5 Leadership, governance and policy 47

1997 and a new direction for metropolitan government 52

The London Plan: A global city strategy 56

London boroughs 59

Promoting London 60

London's governance today 66

6 Re-investment and urban regeneration 69

Cultural revitalisation of the South Bank: Lambeth, Southwark
and Greenwich 72

New regeneration powers from 2000 74

Regeneration in perspective 77

From de-industrial to post-industrial: Building a new experience
for markets, leisure and commerce 80

7 Corporate hub, officemarket and real estate 87

The rise and rise of tall buildings 88

The diffusion of London's office geography 89

The transformative impact of foreign capital 93

8 Homes and housing in London 99

Consensus but complacency in the 1990s 100

The London Plan and a new agenda for housing 101

London's housing predicament: Prospects and solutions
107

9 London's evolving infrastructure platform 111

The impact of TfL and citywide government on transport 113

From incrementalism to integration? 117

Section III London today and in the future

10 World cities today 121

Measuring world cities in 2015 125

Emerging world cities 128

Insights from benchmarks about short- and long-term city success
132

11 London in the next decade: Implications of the rise of
other world cities 135

Finance and business: Global leadership in a new context 138

Culture, diversity and destination 143

Higher education, technology and new sectors 145

Sustainability and liveability: Aspiration or reality? 149

Infrastructure, housing and skills 151

12 Investment in London: Challenges and solutions 159

London's relationship with the UK 160

London's constrained investment scene 162

The financial and investment capacity of London's five
principal rivals 166

London's fiscal position in perspective 169

13 Eight imperatives for London 175

14 Lessons from London for other cities 187

Appendix 195

Bibliography 197

Index 219

Rezensionen

"The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021, by
leading global cities expert and Centre for London Associate Greg
Clark, which is published this month, seeks to remedy this by
considering how London got where it is today, and setting out the
challenges still facing us." (Centre for London,
10 December 2014)

The future of cities depends on their resilience. London -
messy, unplanned, organic and ungovernable - has become a
model of global city resilience. Anyone interested in
understanding the complexity of cities should read this
book.--Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, London
School of Economics, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

In The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021 Greg Clark
draws on over 25 years of experience working within London policy
and economic development organisations, and on interviews with
around 100 leading thinkers about the past, present and future of
London, including commentators and leaders in New York, Tokyo, Hong
Kong, Paris, Singapore, and São Paulo.--Professor
Rosemary Scanlon, Dean, Shack Institute of Real Estate, New York
University

London has captured the world's imagination as a center
for financial, business, cultural, and social development. Greg
Clark has drawn on his own vast experience and that of leading
experts to write a must-read assessment one of the world's
most important cities.--Michael J. Enright, Sun Hung Kai
Professor, University of Hong Kong

The emerging world cities need to know the secrets and the
challenges of London, New York, Paris and Tokyo. This books helps
us to see London from the inside out, and it explains very clearly
how London became a leading world city.--Professor Miguel
Bucalem, Director, Centre for Cities, University of Sao
Paulo

London's rebirth as a leading World City is indeed a major
strategic achievement. Greg Clark's remarkable and positive account
of this story gives food for thought to other global cities, such
as Paris, who are following a different -less business
focused and more citizen oriented- path.--Paul
Lecroart, Senior Urban Planner, Paris Region Planning Agency (IAU
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Moscow's role as a global hub of business and finance is
evolving in ways which understand that culture, higher education,
and international promotion are critical ingredients for success.
The London story, as told by Greg Clark, reinforces these messages
and shows how former Imperial Cities can become great world cities
in the modern age.--Professor Andrei Sharonov, Dean,
Skolkovo Business School, Former Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Chairman
of Moscow Urban Forum

As Barcelona continues on its path towards to being a global
city in Europe, lessons from London become increasingly more
interesting and relevant. This book reveals London's formula
for global success in ways which educate and
entertain.--Mateu Hernandez, CEO, Barcelona Global

In this book Greg Clark tells the remarkable story of how London
reinvented itself over the past quarter century, making it, along
with New York, one of the world's two leading centers of commerce,
finance, communications and innovation.--Professor Bob
Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association of New York

Clark tells a fascinating story - how on old and seemingly tired
global city got a new lease of life - extremely well.--Ben
Rogers, Director, Centre for London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Architektur • Bauentwurf • become • Building Design • Business & Management • catalysts • City • city london • clear • Code • Cosmopolitan • decades • Design • Detail • Evolution • Flexible • Global • High • Immobilien u. Grundbesitz • Influence • London • Olympics • Plan • Planned • Power • Property & Real Estate • Stadtentwicklung • Success • Systems • Trade • two • Urban Development • visible • watermark • Wirtschaft u. Management • World
• ISBN-10: 1-118-60973-5 / 1118609735
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-60973-6 / 9781118609736