Making Creative Knowledge Cities

This book pragmatically explores the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, triple helix based transformation, and learning by city governments. Original examples from both the EU and US are complemented by detailed case studies of cities including Rotterdam, Vienna and Munich. The book also examines the reality of knowledge cities in emerging economies such as Brazil and China, with a focus on institutional transferability. Key conditions addressed include soft infrastructure, knowledge spillovers among firms and the connectivity of cities via transport networks to allow the creation of new hubs of knowledge-based services.

Discussing global society entails discussing the predominant characteristics of knowledge-based activities in all walks of life. Its main characteristics are based on creativity, innovation, freedom, and networking. The emergence of such a society poses several challenges to all disciplines of social sciences. Within such a context, sociologists must have practical encounters to the theoretical, methodological, and empirical challenges imposed within contemporary global society. In this vein, studying creative cities from an interdisciplinary perspective helps provide critical readings of the phenomenon and the different levels of the concept in reality. The Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development provides global models and best practices of creative cities worldwide and illustrates different theoretical blueprints for the better understanding of contemporary global society. While defining key concepts of creative cities, global society, and creative class, the book also clarifies the main differences between hubs, parks, and precincts and their contributions to knowledge-based development. Covering topics that include knowledge economy, social inclusion, and urban mobility, this comprehensive reference is ideal for sociologists, urban planners/designers, political scientists, economists, anthropologists, historians, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

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.

The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate "creative knowledge" cities. The editors compare the socio-economic developments, experiences and strategies in 13 urban regions across Europe: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Milan, Munich, Poznan, Riga, Sofia and Toulouse. These have different histories and roles; include capital and non-capital cities of different sizes; represent cities with different economic structures; and different cultural, political and welfare state traditions. Through this wide set of examples, Making Competitive Cities informs the debate about creative and knowledge-intensive industries, economic development, and competitiveness policies. It focuses on which metropolitan regions have a better chance to develop as "creative knowledge regions" and which do not, as well as investigating why this is so and what can policy do to influence change. Chapter authors from thirteen European institutions rigorously evaluate, reformulate and empirically test assumptions about cities and their potential for attracting creative and knowledge-intensive industries. As well as a systematic empirical comparison of developments related to these industries, the book examines the pathways that cities have followed and surveys both the negative and positive impacts of different prevailing conditions. Special Features: Analyses link between knowledge-intensive sectors and urban competitiveness Offers evidence from 13 European urban regions drawn from a major research project Establishes a new benchmark for academic and policy debates in a fast-moving field

"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.

Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the different contexts that these national settings provide, which allows comparisons between them.

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.

Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the key economic growth asset - and argues that, in order to prosper, cities must harness this creative potential.

Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial benefits for cities and communities. Cultural and creative industries are key drivers of the creative economy and represent important sources of employment, economic growth, and innovation, thus contributing to city competitiveness and sustainability. Through their contribution to urban regeneration and sustainable urban development, cultural and creative industries make cities more attractive places for people to live in and for economic activity to develop. Culture and creativity also contribute to social cohesion at the neighborhood level, enable creative networks to form and advance innovation and growth, and create opportunities for those who are often socially and economically excluded. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the cultural sector, yet it has also revealed the power of cultural and creative industries as a resource for city recovery and resilience. More generally, cities are hubs of the creative economy and have a critical role to play in harnessing the transformative potential of cultural and creative industries through policies and enabling environments at the local level. 'Cities, Culture, and Creativity' (CCC) provides guiding principles and a CCC Framework, developed by UNESCO and the World Bank, to support cities in unlocking the power of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development, city competitiveness, and social inclusion. Drawing from global studies and the experiences of nine diverse cities from across the world, the CCC Framework offers concrete guidance for the range of actors -- city, state, and national governments; creative industry and related private-sector organizations; creatives; culture professionals and civil society-- to harness culture and creativity with a view to boosting their local creative economies and building resilient, inclusive, and dynamic cities.