House prices : changing the city world : the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (2017-2018)

This report was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT. Using the indicator system and objective data, the competitiveness of 1,035 global cities was evaluated in detail. The report measures the development pattern of global urban competitiveness as a whole, and the gap between the relevant parties and the ideal state. It has refreshed people's past perceptions of urban rankings and confirmed that the science and technology innovation center cities and central cities of emerging economies have begun to break the inherent global cities and they have entered the ranks of the most urban competitiveness. While paying attention to the comparison of competitiveness among cities, this report further promotes the perspective to the pattern and trend change of global economic and social development from the perspective of city. The followings are new findings: First, information technology has increasingly become the primary driving force for urban development; Second, it is the three meridians that divide the global urban population and economic differentiation; Third, the soft links between cities gradually dominate the global urban system; Fourth, the formation of new global cities is beginning. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Annual Ranking of Global Urban Competitiveness 2017–2018 (The Whole Group)....Pages 3-48 Reviews of Global Urban Competitiveness 2017–2018 Driving Force, Agglomeration, Connectivity and the New Global City (Pengfei Ni, Marco Kamiya, Li Shen, Weijin Gong, Haidong Xu)....Pages 49-131 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 Research Background and Literature Review (Pengfei Ni, Yangzi Zhang)....Pages 135-145 The Relationship Between Housing Prices and Urban Competitiveness: A Theoretical Framework (Qingfeng Cao)....Pages 147-155 Global Urban Real Estate Market Status (Hongyu Guo)....Pages 157-185 Relationship Between the Housing Price and Competitiveness: Empirical Analysis (Pengfei Ni, Haidong Xu, Haibo Wang)....Pages 187-255 City Story: House Prices and Competitiveness (The Whole Group)....Pages 257-421 Economic Foundations for Sustainable Urbanization: The Link with Competitiveness (Marco Kamiya, Loeiz Bourdic)....Pages 423-437 Front Matter ....Pages 439-439 Global Urban Comprehensive Economic Competitiveness Report 2017–2018 (Bo Li, Xiaonan Liu)....Pages 441-528 Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2017–2018 (Xiaobo Zhou, Yufei Wang, Jie Wei)....Pages 529-603 Back Matter ....Pages 605-618