Overview
- Reviews the emerging interest in how cities function, and what constitutes a 'good city'
- Discusses European Union initiatives to intervene at the urban scale to improve competitiveness
- Addresses the demand for more policy-relevant research
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Europe's competitiveness
- European Union
- High quality living conditions
- Integrating urban knowledge
- Knowledge economy
- Low quality environments
- Quality of life
- Scientific approaches to knowledge
- Selection of knowledge
- Urban context
- Urban issues
- Urban policy
- Urban politics
- Urban regeneration
- Urban scale
- Use of knowledge
- Well being of cities
- social network theories
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
This book provides new insights on cities and the nature of urban development, and the role of knowledge management in urban growth. It considers how knowledge informs policies and supports decision making, and can assist in addressing the drivers of urban change. The way that knowledge is produced and used in urban development is analysed, with examples drawn from a range of European countries.
This book illustrates how the development and implementation of policies for urban areas can draw on knowledge management, even as the knowledge economy itself stimulates the evolution of the city as a place of innovation and creativity. Whilst knowledge grows in importance, so do urban issues, particularly in economic and political contexts at both European and national levels.
These essays explore growth in the range of knowledge available in urban contexts, the ways to generate new knowledge from a wide range of stakeholders, and how these can make an effective contribution to decision making processes in urban development.
The attractiveness of cities and surrounding areas to knowledge based forms of industry and investment and the competitiveness and performance of cities are a matter of major concern for national governments. In a sense it has become too important to leave to city politicians, and it is a topic requiring sustained reflection. This book gives the reader a detailed understanding of the issues involved and prompts further reflections.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Production and Use of Urban Knowledge
Book Subtitle: European Experiences
Editors: Hans Thor Andersen, Rob Atkinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8936-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8935-9Published: 28 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9720-8Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8936-6Published: 13 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 183
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cities, Countries, Regions, Urbanism, Social Sciences, general