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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Regional government

• Full title: Creative Knowledge Cities
• Author: Marina van Geenhuizen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 488
• EAN: 9780857932846
• ISBN: 0857932845
• ID: 01296088
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 886 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2012

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