IMPLEMENTING CHANGE:

A NEW LOCAL AGENDA FOR

JOBS AND GROWTH In co-operation with the EU Presidency, Irish Government and Pobal

26-27 March 2013, Dublin-Kilkenny, Ireland

9th Annual Meeting

PLENARY SESSION I: A NEW LOCAL AGENDA FOR JOBS AND GROWTH

Edward Blakely Professor of Urban Policy, United States Studies Center, University of Sydney, Australia

Economic Development

Since the appearance of the first edition in 1990, Planning Local Economic Development has been the foundation for an entire generation of practitioners and academics working in planning and policy development. Written by authors with years of academic, regional, and city planning experience, the book has been used widely in graduate economic development, urban studies, nonprofit management

Evolution of Thinking from 1st to 4th Edition of Local Economic Development

1st Edition—the endogenous base

2nd Edition

Focus on Innovative Milieus

3rd Edition

Glocalization

“Cities (city-regions), furthermore, are fast coming to function as the basic motor of the global economy”.

A. Scott, 2001

The City Region Base for Local Economic Development

A multi-tiered network of regional economies

Making Sustainable healthy, Safe Places—the 4th edition

Local Economic Development Concepts

Focus of Economic Development

Economic Diversity Agglomeration of

reinforcing firms that

collaborate as well

as compete for

global market share

Amsterdam, Munich, San

Francisco with very

diverse industries that

have domestic and

international exports

Population Muti-

culturalism

High levels of

immigration and

cultural tolerance

with regard to race,

national origins and

related factors

London, Paris and New

York with exceptionally

vital and diverse

populations that attract

jobs and firms

Creative/skilled

Workforce

High number of

specialized

university educated

imaginative people in

arts, sciences and

management

disciplines

Dublin, North Carolina

Triangle, Hong Kong,

Bangalore and Singapore

all posses well educated

workers attractive to

global capital and firms

The New People Dimensions for Competitive Cities

Basis and Rationale

Local Economic Development Based on Notion

Resource Differentiation

Indigenous Capacity

Uneven Geography of Opportunity

Social and Spatial inequality

Rationale

Local Space

Local Economic Development as Industry

Communities Built for Factories

Local Economic Development as Rural and Small Town Revitlisation

Local Economic Development as Business and Employment Generation

Local Economic Development As Endowments--Human Skills

Inequality is an increasing problem across the globe and an American

Dilemma

Indigenous Capacity

Not everyone favors our current form of economic development

Uneven Geography of Opportunity

Social and Spatial

inequality

Global-local

Ed-Med City Future

The Locus of Economic Development

Regional Institutional Infrastrcuture

Urban Revitalisation Zones

Demography as local economic resource

Local Economic Plan

Local Cultural Economy

Local Landscape as Economic Resource

Creating from Junk

University as Collaborative Builder

University to

University relations

University to key constituents as verifier

University to Civic Leaders as unbiased actor

University to government as honest broker

Innovation Cities Belfast United Kingdom

Bern Switzerland

Birmingham United Kingdom

Cannes France

Cardiff United Kingdom

Coventry United Kingdom

Dublin Ireland

Gdansk Poland

Financing the New Knowledge Precincts

Knowledge Space

Live-work Space

Work-Communi-space

New Flex-space

Re-tooling and Reconfiguring Existing Economic Nodes

• Re-use of existing space

for the New Economy

• Existing Strip Shopping

areas

• Re-examination of roles

and hierarchies of centres

• Role of New populations in

creating and sustaining

new economic and

commercial activities

Understanding Brain Pool

The region needs to retain 20 - 34 year old population

SUSTAINABILITY

Feasibility studies and valuation analysis

Quarterly workshops, seminars and roundtables.

Grant applications to National and Local Foundations.

Research and Consulting opportunities.

E-commerce opportunities including extended learning and web workshops simulcast.

City Beauty

Good Healthy

Communities Pedestrian-oriented,

mixed use design

Frequent bus service

Preservation of mature

shade trees

Renewable energy

Recycled building

materials

Beautiful Places