Knowledge And The City

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of urban and regional knowledge assets and resources, and developing new methods to evaluate the performance and potential of knowledge-based urban and regional development, the book provides an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of knowledge-based development and its implications and prospects for cities and regions.

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed. Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global networks of trade and exchange during the early modern period. Moreover, new ideas about the relationship between nature and the transcendent, as well as technological transformations, impacted upon both considerably. This book addresses the entanglement between knowledge production and the early modern urban environment while incorporating approaches to the city and knowledge in which both are seen as emerging from hybrid networks in which human and non-human elements continually interact and acquire meaning. It highlights how new forms of knowledge and new conceptions of the urban co-emerged in highly contingent practices, shedding a new light on present-day ideas about the impact of cities on knowledge production and innovation. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called ‘modern’ knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge.

This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging, it is similarly expected to produce its own space to suit the new circumstances of production and consumption. If these spatial expressions do exist, even if in incomplete and partial forms, they are likely to be the model for the future of cities.

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of urban and regional knowledge assets and resources, and developing new methods to evaluate the performance and potential of knowledge-based urban and regional development, the book provides an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of knowledge-based development and its implications and prospects for cities and regions.

Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the 'global' and the 'urban'. What does it mean to say that we live in a global-urban moment, and what are its implications? Refusing all-encompassing answers, the book grounds this question, exploring the plurality of understandings, definitions, and ways of researching global urbanism through the lenses of varied contributors from different parts of the world. The contributors explore what global urbanism means to them, in their context, from the ground and the struggles upon which they are working and living. The book argues for an incremental, fragile and in-the-making emancipatory urban thinking. The contributions provide the resources to help make sense of what global urbanism is in its varieties, what's at stake in it, how to research it, and what needs to change for more progressive urban futures. It provides a heterodox set of approaches and theorisations to probe and provoke rather than aiming to draw a line under a complex, changing and profoundly contested set of global-urban processes. Global Urbanism is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students in geography, sociology, planning, anthropology and the field of urban studies, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines and practices which converge in the study of urbanism. Chapter 36 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429259593

Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South

"Brings together a group of disstinguished scholars and practitioners from around the world to outline the theory, describe cases, and identify issues for the understanding and development of knowledge cities." - cover.

Foreword: Competing: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become Prosperous / Peter Franz -- Preface: Introducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge Cities / Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Javier Carrillo -- Pt. I. Policies for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalising Knowledge Economy / Bjorn Asheim -- 2. Creating: The Creative Class-based Knowledge City Models of Denmark / Mark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen -- 3. Organising: Spontaneously-developed Urban Technology Precincts / Gulnur Cevikayak and Koray Velibeyoglu -- 4. Globalising: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? / Glen Searle and Kevin O'Connor -- 5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Cafe and the Attraction of Urban Space / Kirsten Martinus -- 6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in Germany / Stefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski -- 7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens' Competences and Knowledge City Transformation / Octavio Gonzalez, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and America Martinez -- Pt. II. Plans for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant Ecosystem / Cathy Garner and Anne Dornan -- 9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge Cities / Kostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis -- 10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of Eindhoven / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado -- 11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney / Richard Hu -- 12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation / Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaina Macke -- 13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small Business / Kay Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn -- 14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL Universities / James Powell -- 15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge Region / Caren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus Wermker -- Pt. III. Metrics for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne's Knowledge Economy / Kevin Johnson -- 17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and Perspectives / Francisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores -- 18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and Boston / Tan Yigitcanlar -- 19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi Exercise / Alicia Leal and Blanca Garcia -- 20. Afterword Concluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities / Joris van Wazemael.

Explores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives, providing fundamental techniques and processes for the successful integration of information technologies and urban production. Presents research on a multitude of cutting-edge urban information communication technology issues.

Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. Through the lenses of promise, politics and possibility, it examines how the knowledge economy has arisen, how different cities have sought to realise its potential, how universities play a role in its realisation and, overall, what this reveals about the relationship between politics, capitalism, space, place and knowledge in cities. The book argues that the 21st century city has been predicated on particular circuits of knowledge that constitute expertise as residing in elite and professional epistemic communities. In contrast, alternative conceptions of the knowledge society are founded on assumptions which take analysis, deliberation, democracy and the role of the citizen and communities of practice seriously. Drawing on a range of examples from cities around the world, the book reflects on these possibilities and asks what roles the practice of ‘active intermediation’, the university and a critical and engaged social scientific practice can all play in this process. The book is aimed at researchers and students from different disciplines – geography, politics, sociology, business studies, economics and planning – with interests in contemporary urbanism and the role of knowledge in understanding development, as well as urban policymakers, politicians and practitioners who are concerned with the future of our cities and seek to create coalitions of different communities oriented towards more just and sustainable futures.