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• Title:Beyond smart cities : how cities network, learn and innovate / Tim Campbell.
  
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• Author/Creator:Campbell, Tim, 1943-
  
• Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .C25 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Case studies.
  Cities and towns--Growth--Case studies.
  
• Genre/Form:Case studies.
  
• Description:xiv, 236 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focused on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities - that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation - this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the surface and to examine the mechanisms which affect the way cities learn and then connect together. This book draws on quantitative and qualitative data with concrete case studies to show how networks already operating in cities are used to foster and strengthen connections in order to achieve breakthroughs in learning and innovation. Going beyond smart cities means understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate relationships that grow in urban environments. Cities discussed in this book - Amman, Barcelona, Bilbao, Charlotte, Curitiba, Juarez, Portland, Seattle and Turin - illuminate a blind spot in the literature. Each of these cities has achieved important transformations, and learning has played a key role, one that has been largely ignored in academic circles and practice concerning competitiveness and innovation"-- From publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781849714259 (hardback : alk. paper)
  1849714258 (hardback : alk. paper)
  9781849714266 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1849714266 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780203137680 (e-book)
  020313768X (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I changing place of cities in the urban age
  1. Overview
  2. slow emergence of learning cities in an urbanizing world
  3. Cities as collective learners: what do we know?
  pt. II Framing a view
  4. gamut of learning types
  5. Light on a shadow economy: city learning in 53 cities
  pt. III Crucibles of learning: proactive learner-reformers
  6. Informal learners
  -Turin, Portland and Charlotte
  7. Technical learning: Curitiba and city think tanks
  8. Corporate styles: Bilbao, Seattle and others
  9. Clouds of trust in style
  pt. IV Secrets of a knowing and accelerating change
  10. Taking stock: why some cities learn and others do not
  11. Turning the learning world upside down
  -pathways forward in policy and research.