Skills and cities : implications of location preferences of highly educated workers for spatial development of metropolitan areas / edited by Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje and Jan Rouwendal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One -- 1. Skills and cities: an introductory framework / Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje and Jan Rouwendal -- 2. Housing and amenities as attracting factors for cities and their regions: a literature review / Bart Sleutjes -- 3. Residential sorting of creative knowledge workers in four European knowledge cities / Bart Sleutjes -- Part Two -- 4. Housing and location preferences of higher educated workers in The Netherlands: an introduction / Marco Bontje, Sako Musterd and Jan Rouwendal -- 5. 'The' creative class does not exist: contrasting residential preferences of creative and technical workers in Amsterdam and Eindhoven / Willem R. Boterman and Marco Bontje -- 6. Sorting models of household location and urban amenities / Mark van Duijn, Jan Möhlmann, Ismir Mulalic and Jan Rouwendal -- 7. Integration and policy simulations / Jasper Dekkers, Jan Möhlmann and Jan Rouwendal -- Part Three -- 8. Housing and location preferences of higher educated international migrants in The Netherlands: an introduction / Jan Rouwendal, Sako Musterd and Marco Bontje -- 9. Stated residential preferences of highly-skilled international migrants / Bart Sleutjes and Willem R. Boterman -- 10. International students and the Netherlands / Or Levkovich, Jan Rouwendal and Carla Sá -- 11. Location choices of highly educated foreign workers: the importance of urban amenities / Or Levkovich and Jan Rouwendal -- 12. Revealed residential preference of international migrants working in creative and knowledge intensive industries: the settlement process / Bart Sleutjes and Sako Musterd -- Part Four -- 13. Skills and Cities: Jobs and Amenities / Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje and Jan Rouwendal.