Cities and the Knowledge Economy (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

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Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development within the latest 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 in regards to 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 all over the world, the book reflects on these possibilities and asks what roles the practice of ‘active intermediation’, the university and a essential and engaged social scientific practice can all play on this process.

The book is aimed at researchers and students from different disciplines – geography, politics, sociology, business studies, economics and planning – with interests in latest urbanism and the role of knowledge in understanding development, in addition to urban policymakers, politicians and practitioners who are serious about the way forward for our cities and are trying to find to create coalitions of different communities oriented towards more just and sustainable futures.


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