Strategies of cities in globalised interurban competition: The locational policies framework

Kaufmann, David; Arnold, Tobias

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“…Most studies focusing on policies in SMSTs trace the prevalent policy agendas in these towns, but they do not discuss the impact of these policies on local economic development (Kaufmann & Arnold, 2018;Lorentzen, 2012). Moreover, it is often the case that SMSTs located in rural areas are studied and treated as regional towns or as economically unimportant (Bell & Jayne, 2009).…”

Section: Local Policies Of Smsts In Metropolitan Regionsmentioning

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Leaves in the wind? Local policies of small and medium-sized towns in metropolitan regions

Kaufmann

Meili

2018

European Planning Studies

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Small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) contribute to the economic performance of whole metropolitan regions. However, the variety of factors that influence the economic development of SMSTs is understudied and the impact and relevance of their local policies are especially unclear. This article studies local policies of SMSTs within the metropolitan region of Zurich (Switzerland) and the impact of local policies on the economic specialization of these towns. Switzerland serves as an interesting context in which to study SMSTs, particularly those in metropolitan regions, due to their constant growth and the high local autonomy enjoyed by their local governments. Using a multiple case study design that relies on a pair-wise comparison, we find that the economic specialization of SMSTs can mainly be explained by factors that are exogenous to local policy-making such as the town's location and its connectivity. Land-use strategies are the only local policies that can influence the economic specialization of SMSTs. Therefore, SMSTs are well advised to invest in professionalized land-use departments and to coordinate their land-use strategies with neighbouring jurisdictions.

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Section: Local Policies Of Smsts In Metropolitan Regionsmentioning

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Leaves in the wind? Local policies of small and medium-sized towns in metropolitan regions

Kaufmann

Meili

2018

European Planning Studies

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“…Berli (2016) traces local tax competition not just between neighbor municipalities but within municipalities in the whole Zurich metropolitan area. Kaufmann and Arnold (2017) find that high local tax autonomy explains the obsession of Lucerne's locational polices agenda to maximize tax revenue. These studies echo Devecchi's claims of intensive, and potentially disruptive, municipal competition dynamics in Switzerland fueled by the high local tax autonomy.…”

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Competition in local land use planning?

Berli

2016

J. Pub. Pol.

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The extent of political fragmentation of metropolitan areas impedes effective land use planning in many countries, and thus contributes to the phenomenon of urban sprawl. For some metropolises in the United States and Europe, strategic interaction between local policymakers codetermines the implementation of local planning policies. However, previous empirical analyses of this phenomenon have usually assumed interdependence in planning decisions to be confined to neighbouring jurisdictions. This is a common simplification in research on diffusion in public policies. Proceeding on the assumption that municipal zoning decisions are subject to competition between municipal authorities trying to attract new residents, I suggest an alternative conceptualisation of location-choice competition in Tiebout-like economies: the correlations of out-commuting patterns serve as a proxy for the degree to which municipalities are competitors for mobile residents, irrespective of their contiguity. Spatial autoregressive models, estimated on the basis of a large panel of fine-grained zoning data, reveal that zoning decisions in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland’s most dynamic metropolitan area, are indeed subject to such interdependence.

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“…Locational policies can take many forms. Kaufmann and Arnold (2017) distinguish between six types of locational policies: 1innovation policies, which facilitate knowledge flows between a region's crucial actors, 2)…”

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Capital Cities in Interurban Competition: Local Autonomy, Urban Governance, and Locational Policy Making

Kaufmann

2018

Urban Affairs Review

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Capital cities are government cities that tend to lack a competitive political economy. Especially secondary capital cities—defined as capitals that are not the primary economic centers of their nation-states—are pressured to increase their economic competitiveness in today’s globalized interurban competition by formulating locational policies. This article compares the locational policies agendas of Bern, Ottawa, The Hague, and Washington, D.C. The comparison reveals that (1) secondary capital cities tend to formulate development-oriented locational policies agendas, (2) local tax autonomy best explains the variance in locational policies agendas, and (3) secondary capital cities possess urban governance arrangements where public actors dominate and where developers are the only relevant private actors. The challenge for secondary capital cities is to formulate locational policies that enable them to position themselves as government cities, as well as business cities, while not solely relying on the development of their physical infrastructure.

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Strategies of cities in globalised interurban competition: The locational policies framework

Cited by 21 publications

References 27 publications

Leaves in the wind? Local policies of small and medium-sized towns in metropolitan regions

Leaves in the wind? Local policies of small and medium-sized towns in metropolitan regions

Competition in local land use planning?

Capital Cities in Interurban Competition: Local Autonomy, Urban Governance, and Locational Policy Making

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