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Critical performance factors for large world cities: in search of qualitative causal patterns by means of rough set analysis

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Kourtit, Karima
Nijkamp, Peter

Abstract

In the currently emerging "urban century", large cities and urban agglomerations are increasingly turning into (socio-)economic and political powerhouses of great importance. This paper offers a comparative assessment of the multidimensional performance profile of major cities in our world, with par... view more

In the currently emerging "urban century", large cities and urban agglomerations are increasingly turning into (socio-)economic and political powerhouses of great importance. This paper offers a comparative assessment of the multidimensional performance profile of major cities in our world, with particular emphasis on the livability and economic features of these cities. The explanatory cohesive framework in the present study is offered by the so-called "urban piazza" model. Using an extensive database on various rankings of global 40 cities (the so-called GPCI data base), the relative performance of these cities is "explained" in a qualitative sense by means of a non-parametric ordinal ranking method, known as rough set analysis. The approach allows us to identify the driving forces that altogether are responsible for the economic and livability achievements of these cities. The empirical analysis highlights the combined "power" of selected success conditions and drivers of these cities concerned. Our empirical results demonstrate that the geographical accessibility of these urban areas appears to play in many cases an important role.... view less

Keywords
large city; regional development; economic development (on national level); achievement; ranking; analysis

Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology

Document language
English

Publication Year
2017

Page/Pages
p. 51-70

Journal
Region: the journal of ERSA, 4 (2017) 1

ISSN
2409-5370

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0


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