La transformación del Ensanche Heredia en Soho. Ciudades creativas, gentrificación y promoción cultural en Málaga

The Director Plan of Art District - Soho Malaga (2011-2014) is an example of the assisted transformation of the neighborhood of Ensanche Heredia by the public administration of Malaga City Hall. The Ensanche’s conversion into Art District helped as a tool to create a city branding associated with the touristic and cultural consumption, stimulating by doing so themed public spaces and privatization process. With these cultural promotion policies, and by following the logics of creative industries, Malaga intends to put itself globally on the competitive map of touristic cities, fundamentally by urban interventions with a special focus on the productive role of the city’s culture. This way, the borough, advertised as a city of museums, with the production of Soho contributed to promoting the gentrification process that the center suffers, in which culture, understood as a strategic asset commodity, has a key role. El Plan Director del Barrio de las Artes - Soho Málaga (2011-2014) supuso un ejemplo de transformación asistida del barrio del Ensanche Heredia por parte de la gestión pública del Ayuntamiento de Málaga. Esta conversión del Ensanche en barrio de las artes contribuyó a la creación de una marca de ciudad ligada al consumo turístico y cultural, estimulándose de esta manera procesos de tematización y privatización del espacio público. Con estas políticas de promoción de la cultura, y siguiendo las premisas de la industria creativa, Málaga busca posicionarse globalmente en el mapa competitivo de las ciudades turísticas, principalmente por medio de intervenciones urbanas que priman el rol productivo de la cultura en la ciudad. De esta manera, la administración municipal, publicitándose como ciudad de los museos, terminó contribuyendo con la producción del Soho a los procesos de gentrificación que sufre el centro, en los que la cultura, entendida como un activo estratégico de mercado, toma un rol principal.

Assessment of the Competitive Positions of National Airlines of Ukraine

This article presents the results of systematization of methodological basis for assessing the competitive status of domestic airlines in the absence of information about their financial condition, actually due to cluster analysis of their various operational, communication and marketing characteristics. Based on the results comprising cluster analysis of profile indicators of airlines available from open sources, clusters - strategic groups of Ukrainian airlines were identified. Construction of a competitive map of the air transportation market of Ukraine, identification of clusters of domestic airlines provide an opportunity to use a differentiated approach to the tools of strategic positioning and crisis management of airlines of Ukraine.

Sports organizations and quality self-diagnostic tool

The competitive map in sports organizations are few studies conducted. This paper attempts to clarify, through the implementation of a technological tool of self structured based on universal principles of quality management introduced in ISO 9000: 2000, the competitiveness of this type of sports institutions, modeled on those who have specialized in futsal facilities synthetic pitches, which are not only sports boom, but social cultural dynamics of the current Bogota society. Thus, with reference to the product futsal, the proposal to observe economic competitiveness in the areas of strategic planning, production and operations, accounting and finance, quality assurance, environmental management, marketing, human resource starts and systems information, synthetic sports facilities that exist in the city and what are the contributions that these likewise have are to improve productivity and be at the forefront of sports organizations sector.

The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew’s Church: Consecration, restoration, and translation

This chapter examines the production and promotion of sacred space in the Middle English church foundation legend, The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew’s Church. The first half of the chapter explores the renewed relevance of the original twelfth-century Latin text, translated into Middle English during the restoration of St Bartholomew the Great, and shows how the text’s catalogue of miracles reinvigorates the sanctity of the church at an important moment in its history. The second half of the chapter examines the text’s representation of the foundation of the church and the characteristics of sanctity established by the miracles and by the text itself. Finally, the chapter shows how the text places St Bartholomew’s at the centre of a competitive map of Christendom in which the church is more than a match for its sacred neighbours, both in London and further afield.

INVARIANT MANIFOLDS FOR COMPETITIVE DISCRETE SYSTEMS IN THE PLANE

Let T be a competitive map on a rectangular region [Formula: see text], and assume T is C1 in a neighborhood of a fixed point [Formula: see text]. The main results of this paper give conditions on T that guarantee the existence of an invariant curve emanating from [Formula: see text] when both eigenvalues of the Jacobian of T at [Formula: see text] are nonzero and at least one of them has absolute value less than one, and establish that [Formula: see text] is an increasing curve that separates [Formula: see text] into invariant regions. The results apply to many hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic cases, and can be effectively used to determine basins of attraction of fixed points of competitive maps, or equivalently, of equilibria of competitive systems of difference equations. These results, known in hyperbolic case, have been used to determine the basins of attraction of hyperbolic equilibrium points and to establish certain global bifurcation results when switching from competitive coexistence to competitive exclusion. The emphasis in applications in this paper is on planar systems of difference equations with nonhyperbolic equilibria, where we establish a precise description of the basins of attraction of finite or infinite number of equilibrium points.

Global Crossing: A Turnaround

During the 1990s, India saw tremendous changes in the economy and many Indian firms enjoyed the benefits of the Government's open policy. On-going process of relaxation in trade barriers and tariffs and the phasing-out of Quantitative Restrictions (QRs) are and will create many opportunities for growth. Changes in the external environment will impose challenges as well as create many opportunities for Indian firms. The focus of this paper is to identify the challenges and propose strategies for Indian multinationals. This would enable them to counter the challenges, leverage the opportunities and extend their product and service offering beyond the shores of the country. This paper analyses the pre-2010 period on the rationale that the strategies adopted by a firm during the years leading to 2010 will play an important role in judging how competitive it will be in the future. We have developed an Evolution Map and propose the use of a Competitive Map for an analysis of the Firm and its Product and Service offering. These tools will help companies identify and locate their relative position in their industries, assess their resources and capabilities, and help devise a future course of action. Following a methodical approach, we have analysed the market characteristics, and identified the Internal and External challenges that firms will face beyond 2010. We have developed a model to identify the strategies that firms need to implement to counter these challenges and stay competitive. Our strategy model and the Key Action Points provide a roadmap for firms who wish to carry their industry leadership to foreign lands. We give a thorough treatment of the key elements of each core strategy and finally analyse the key sectors of the Indian industry and identify some potential Indian multinationals of 2010.