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A survey of the (a-)synchronicity between the fourth Kondratieff long-term economic cycles and investment patterns in urban planning in Antwerp and Amsterdam ;and the impact of these patterns upon the cities' attractiveness.

The goals of the research question are as follows:- intelligibly collecting and arranging data on the (a-)synchronicity between the fourth Kondratieff long-term economic cycle and the investment patterns in urban planning in Amsterdam en Antwerp,- to demonstrate through these instrumental cases how en why that these investment patterns can fundamentally influence a city's attractiveness to its inhabitants (in particular, to the creative class as defined by R. Florida).
Date:1 Jan 2008 →  31 Dec 2009
Keywords:CREATIVE CLASS, ECONOMIC CYCLES, SOCIAL STRUCTURES, URBANICITY
Disciplines:Urban and regional design, development and planning, Applied economics, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, History
Project type:Collaboration project