Case Study: The City of Cape Town & the Western Cape Provincial Government for “Strategies for Change Consultancy.”
Mthente presented research on developing a regional development strategy for Cape Town city region to the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Provincial Government, on behalf of the Strategies for Change Consultancy.
The study focused on Cape Town’s global positioning and
competitiveness, by comparing Cape Town with other city regions
characterised as: (1) port cities; (2) visitor economies; (3) centres
of higher education, (4) centres of innovation as well as research and
development (R&D); (5) creative and cultural hubs; and (6)
agricultural cities.
For this purpose eleven cities were selected for benchmarking. They
were Port Louis ; Rotterdam; Munich; Barcelona; Melbourne; Dubai;
Singapore; Shanghai; Rio De Janeiro; Miami; and
Dakar. All of them – with the exception of Port
Louis, Singapore, Dubai and Dakar – were non-capital cities.
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