Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The Importance of Qualities of the Built Environment to Inward Investment in Paris Ile-de-France
Massive public investment in new transportation infrastructure – estimated at 40 Billion Euros over twenty years – is currently stimulating new development in and around Paris including housing and commercial real estate. With investment promotion agencies marketing such investment alongside new economic policies in favour of innovation and entrepreneurship, inward investment to Ile-de-France hit historic highs in 2019. This research looks at the importance of the qualities of the built environment and the actors who shape them in inward investment. Academic literature on investment promotion and site selection have investigated the role of location and infrastructure in the attraction and development of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), focusing on knowledge and labour market externalities with limited attention to the quality of the built environment. Literature on urban regeneration, property-led development and financialisation look at the value of the built environment for real estate and economic development without explaining the contribution of the physical characteristics of spaces and places. Research on creative and cultural economies provides some understanding of the draw of urban density and cultural heritage, but analysis of the actors interested in such features is limited. By combining property and planning literature with literature on market-making, the thesis adopts an actor-centred approach to explain the importance of the built environment in the location decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Exploratory data analysis techniques were used to relate the built environment qualities of 1,220 MNE locations in Ile-de-France to their investment type, facility type, economic sector, employee count and nationality. Results reveal patterns among them, such as the tendency of first-time FDI to locate in the historic urban core and of expanding FDI to favour peripheral business parks. They also indicate the popularity of urban compactness, coworking facilities and business centres, new, ...
The Importance of Qualities of the Built Environment to Inward Investment in Paris Ile-de-France
Massive public investment in new transportation infrastructure – estimated at 40 Billion Euros over twenty years – is currently stimulating new development in and around Paris including housing and commercial real estate. With investment promotion agencies marketing such investment alongside new economic policies in favour of innovation and entrepreneurship, inward investment to Ile-de-France hit historic highs in 2019. This research looks at the importance of the qualities of the built environment and the actors who shape them in inward investment. Academic literature on investment promotion and site selection have investigated the role of location and infrastructure in the attraction and development of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), focusing on knowledge and labour market externalities with limited attention to the quality of the built environment. Literature on urban regeneration, property-led development and financialisation look at the value of the built environment for real estate and economic development without explaining the contribution of the physical characteristics of spaces and places. Research on creative and cultural economies provides some understanding of the draw of urban density and cultural heritage, but analysis of the actors interested in such features is limited. By combining property and planning literature with literature on market-making, the thesis adopts an actor-centred approach to explain the importance of the built environment in the location decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Exploratory data analysis techniques were used to relate the built environment qualities of 1,220 MNE locations in Ile-de-France to their investment type, facility type, economic sector, employee count and nationality. Results reveal patterns among them, such as the tendency of first-time FDI to locate in the historic urban core and of expanding FDI to favour peripheral business parks. They also indicate the popularity of urban compactness, coworking facilities and business centres, new, ...
The Importance of Qualities of the Built Environment to Inward Investment in Paris Ile-de-France
Simpson, Jacob Thomas (Autor:in)
28.04.2022
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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