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KNOWLEDGE AND THE EUROPEAN CITY
Author(s) -
VAN WINDEN WILLEM
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00591.x
Subject(s) - city marketing , identity (music) , space (punctuation) , public space , urban planning , business , knowledge management , political science , regional science , geography , engineering , computer science , architectural engineering , civil engineering , aesthetics , tourism , law , operating system , philosophy
This paper discusses and illustrates the ‘knowledge turn’ in urban policy across Europe. We identify four manifestations of it: 1) widespread efforts to lure knowledge workers; 2) a growing involvement of knowledge institutes in urban development and planning processes, 3) an explicit ‘knowledge based’ approach to planning and the design of public space, and 4) efforts to underline a ‘knowledge city’ identity using all kinds of marketing and branding techniques.