La guerra de la classe creativa

Gràcies a l’èxit de les seves publicacions i als seus treballs de recerca, els conceptes de “classe creativa” i “qualitat del lloc” elaborats principalment per Richard Florida s’han convertit en temes de discussió rellevants en els debats sobre economia urbana i geografia urbana. Pensat en un principi per tal d’avaluar el grau de competitivitat de les ciutats nordamericanes, el concepte de qualitat del lloc també ha estat aplicat a diverses ciutats europees, si bé també cal tenir en compte l’anàlisi de la qualitat del lloc a nivell nacional només constitueix un dels indicadors del potencial competitiu de les ciutats

Remote work, Peloton and online education: what the end of commuting means for cities

City centres are currently almost empty. Richard Florida (Rotman School of Management and University of Toronto) predicts that knowledge workers will spend less time in the office – but that does not necessarily mean a boom in suburban living. Instead, they will seek out attractive, high-amenity places in cities and more remote rural areas, where they can work, play and educate their children, often within a 15-minute radius. Service workers in city centres will fall further behind, and economic and geographic divides will widen

The Globalization of Automobile Production

This paper is based on research from an in-progress project on the effect of globalization on competition and jobs in the automotive industry.3 Its purpose is to gain a clearer picture of the emerging economic geography of automobile production. The project has found that automakers and their Tier 1suppliers are aggressively internationalizing their operations in search of new markets and lower production CONS. At the same time, the largest automakers are attempting to centralize the product development and corporate control functions of their organizations in their home locations, where they are wor~ng more closely than ever with Tier 1 suppliers. we believe that both the centrifugal and centripetal aspects of the ?globalization? prwess will have important long-term effects on the character of competition; and the quantity, quality, and location of jobs in the sector. Moreover, many analysts who watch the automotive industry closely wam that the ag=mssive offshore investment that we are seeing today wiil create conditions of severe excess capacity in the near- and medium-term. A major ?post-globalization shakeout? could permanently alter the competitive landscape of the industry and have disastrous consequences for the employees of the f- that lose. This paper provides a discussion the issues that have been raised by the project?s research so far. The fmt phase of the field research has consisted of a series of on-site interviews at automaker and Tier 1supplier headquarters in Europe, Japan, Kore%and the United States. The headquarters interviews have focused on four themes: 1)new market identilcation and facility planning 2) automaker-supplier relations both at home and abroad; 3) the commonWon of vehicle, componen~ and process design; and 4) geographic variations in methods of worker recruitmen~ training, and work organization. A second phase of the research, to be completed in 1998, will involve visits to selected onand off-shore production sites. At the time of this writing, we have completed the first phase of the research in the United States and Europe. Since the headquarters interviews in Japan and Korea have not yet been conducted, the following discussion will inevitably be canted toward the perspective of American and European firms. Futiemnore, some of the data that we will provide are not yet complete, and are presented in draft form. The paper is organized in four sections. Section One presents the typology of locations that the project has developed as a way to make sense of the data we collect. Section Two presents the empirical case: the geographic spread of automobile production. Section Three discusses some of the factors that are driving the new investment, especially slow growth and increased competition in established markets. Section Four outlines the strategic responses of automakers to the increased risk and operational complexity caused by the globalization process itself.the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Research Note: The Globalization of Automobile Production

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Miami’s New Urban Crisis

Greater Miami has experienced remarkable economic success in recent years. The metro area—which spans Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties—is now the eighth-largest in the United States, with around 6.1 million residents and economic output that exceeds that of many nations. As a symbol of Miami’s dramatic growth, its downtown has been stunningly transformed into a bustling area featuring new restaurants and hotels, an expanding cluster of startup companies, and a twenty-first century skyline of high-rise offices and condo towers.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mufi-reports/1008/thumbnail.jp

Pattern Reification as the Basis for Description-Driven Systems

One of the main factors driving object-oriented software development for information systems is the requirement for systems to be tolerant to change. To address this issue in designing systems, this paper proposes a pattern-based, object-oriented, description-driven system (DDS) architecture as an extension to the standard UML four-layer meta-model. A DDS architecture is proposed in which aspects of both static and dynamic systems behavior can be captured via descriptive models and meta-models. The proposed architecture embodies four main elements - firstly, the adoption of a multi-layered meta-modeling architecture and reflective meta-level architecture, secondly the identification of four data modeling relationships that can be made explicit such that they can be modified dynamically, thirdly the identification of five design patterns which have emerged from practice and have proved essential in providing reusable building blocks for data management, and fourthly the encoding of the structural properties of the five design patterns by means of one fundamental pattern, the Graph pattern. A practical example of this philosophy, the CRISTAL project, is used to demonstrate the use of description-driven data objects to handle system evolution.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure

Miami After HQ2

With Amazon’s search for its second headquarters or “HQ2” finally over, it’s time for Greater Miami to get back to the business of building its own economy. The fact that Miami was selected as one of 20 finalists out of the 238 cities that applied to the original request for proposals reflects the tremendous strides the region has made in the economic development arena. And, the region’s effort to come together to offer eight potential site locations across the three county mega-region—with the leadership of the Miami-Dade Beacon Council and support from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance and the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County—demonstrates a tremendous step forward for an area with such a long history of fragmented and balkanized leadershiphttps://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mufi-reports/1004/thumbnail.jp

Benchmarking Miami’s Talent Base

Talent is a key driver of advanced economies. Highly educated and skilled individuals drive income, wages, and economic growth in cities and metros across the globe1 . As Miami aspires to the ranks of leading global cities, how does its talent base stack up?https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mufi-reports/1007/thumbnail.jp