Knowledge city and urban economic resilience

Urban economic resilience provides a novel perspective on the sustainable development of urban and regional economy. Selecting 37 prefecture-level cities in the Northeast China that also known as the rust belt in China as a regional study sample that has experienced significant economic decline and out-migration in the last 20 years compared to many other regions in China, this study aims to construct an index system using the data collected in 2005, 2010, and 2016. This study evaluates urban economic resilience including five socioeconomic aspects: diversity, capabilities related to revenue and expenditure, innovation environment, trend of development, and openness. We analyze the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of urban economic resilience, explore the key factors contributing to urban resilience and then provide decision-making suggestions to enhance it. We find the following: (1) urban economic resilience in the Northeast China has gradually increased over time, but spatial heterogeneity of resilience was prominent. Specifically, coastal cities were more economically resilient than inland cities. (2) Urban economic resilience in the Northeast China is significantly contributed by the diversity of an economic system and the trend of development, which contribute to resilience with weights of 0.214 and 0.216, respectively. The dominant factors contributing to urban economic resilience are different among diverse urban economic types and size. (3) To enhance urban economic resilience, comprehensive economic cities need to focus on increasing the diversity of economic structures. Resource-based and old industrial cities should focus on raising the innovation environment. Coastal cities should focus on increasing the diversity of their economic structures and creating positive trends of economic and social development. Agricultural cities should focus on creating positive trends of economic and social development.

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Intensifier of urban economic resilience: Specialized or diversified agglomeration?

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0260214 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. e0260214

Author(s):

Mingdou Zhang ◽

Qingbang Wu ◽

Weilu Li ◽

Dongqi Sun ◽

Fei Huang

Keyword(s):

Impact Resistance ◽

Industrial Agglomeration ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Economic Resilience ◽

Index Method ◽

Industrial Diversification ◽

Urban Economic ◽

Industrial Specialization ◽

The Impact ◽

Positive Effect

With increased uncertainty and instability worldwide, how to enhance the urban economy resilience effectively has become one main issue for urban economic development. Based on the measurement of the economic resilience of 241 cities at the prefecture level and above in China using the sensitive index method, we scrutinize the impact of industrial specialization agglomeration and diversification agglomeration on urban economic resilience. Results indicate that, during the impact resistance period, industrial diversification agglomeration, especially related industrial diversification agglomeration, can enhance urban economic resilience, whereas industrial specialization agglomeration has no positive effect. In contrast, during the period of recovery and adjustment, industrial specialization agglomeration can improve urban economic resilience, and industrial diversification agglomeration, especially related industrial diversification agglomeration, has no positive effect. Further analysis indicates that, under the interaction of specialization and diversification agglomerations, the effect of industrial agglomeration on urban economic resilience depends on the type of dual industrial agglomeration, showing remarkable heterogeneity. This study may provide useful references for policy makers concerned with urban resilience.

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TRANSITION AND URBAN ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IN POLAND'S POST-INDUSTRIAL TOWNS: THE CASE OF BYTOM

Regions Magazine ◽

10.1080/13673882.2012.10515117 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 286 (1) ◽

pp. 15-17

Author(s):

Lucjan Goczoł

Keyword(s):

Economic Resilience ◽

Urban Economic ◽

Post Industrial

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EXPLORING THE URBAN ECONOMIC RESILIENCE CONCEPT

Regions Magazine ◽

10.1080/13673882.2012.10515114 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 286 (1) ◽

pp. 8-10

Author(s):

Adam Drobniak

Keyword(s):

Economic Resilience ◽

Urban Economic

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Scaling and universality in urban economic diversification

Journal of The Royal Society Interface ◽

10.1098/rsif.2015.0937 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (114) ◽

pp. 20150937 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Hyejin Youn ◽

Luís M. A. Bettencourt ◽

José Lobo ◽

Deborah Strumsky ◽

Horacio Samaniego ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Empirical Distribution ◽

General Structure ◽

City Size ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Economic Resilience ◽

Economic Implications ◽

Urban Economic ◽

Universal Structure ◽

Scaling Analyses

Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate change to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic units, the detailed fabric of urban economic activities is only recently accessible to comprehensive analyses with the availability of large datasets. Here, we study abundances of business categories across US metropolitan statistical areas, and provide a framework for measuring the intrinsic diversity of economic activities that transcends scales of the classification scheme. A universal structure common to all cities is revealed, manifesting self-similarity in internal economic structure as well as aggregated metrics (GDP, patents, crime). We present a simple mathematical derivation of the universality, and provide a model, together with its economic implications of open-ended diversity created by urbanization, for understanding the observed empirical distribution. Given the universal distribution, scaling analyses for individual business categories enable us to determine their relative abundances as a function of city size. These results shed light on the processes of economic differentiation with scale, suggesting a general structure for the growth of national economies as integrated urban systems.

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