This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to
exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools
for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding
potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. 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. Addressing new policy
tools and developments in governance, this book will prove a
fascinating read for academics, researchers and students with an
interest in urban policy and planning, urban spatial economics,
regional economics and urban sociology. In addition, practitioners
within city and regional governments and agencies will find this
book an invaluable reference tool. Contributors: V. Araujo, A.
Caragliu, Y. Chen, M. de Jong, H. de Jonge, J. de Vries, C. Del Bo,
A. den Heijer, J. Edelenbos, K. Erdos, A.M. Fernandez-Maldonado, M.
Fromhold-Eisebith, R. Garcia, D.-S. Lee, S. Luthi, P. Nijkamp, B. O
hUallachain, R. Rocco, A. Romein, V. Scholten, D.P. Soetanto, M.
Taheri, A. Thierstein, J.J. Trip, M. Trippl, M. van der Land, M.
van Geenhuizen, A. Varga
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