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Urbanistica Cover n.130/2006

The concentration of high-level jobs in the cities

italy, cities, urban policies, italia, città, town,
politiche urbane, plans & policies

Anna Paola Di Risio

For urban high-level jobs we mean those positions characterised by elevated qualification, and decisional power in sectors with a high technological, research or rare services content. Such activities are prevalently located in urban ambits for obvious reasons of rarity and rank, and to a certain extent they can be considered as qualifying the very role of the city.

This article appears in issue 130 of Urbanistica (pag. 25).