| Description |
1 online resource (204 pages) |
| Series |
The Earthscan Science in Society Series |
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Earthscan Science in Society Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Promise, politics and possibilities -- The structure of the book -- References -- PART I Promise -- 1 The knowledge economy -- Introduction -- The promise emerges -- Knowledge, strategy and policy -- Policy targets for knowledge-based success -- Codified, commodified and tacit expertise -- Summary: Mediating the knowledge economy -- References -- 2 Cities as sites of intervention -- Introduction -- Embracing the urban promise |
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Forging the knowledge cityConvergence and divergence in knowledge-based development -- City strategies in the knowledge economy -- Summary: Mediating knowledge-based urban development -- References -- PART II Politics -- 3 Game of scales -- Introduction -- The global race for success -- Context or content? Ambivalence in action -- Winners and losers in the game of scales -- Place, inequality and experimentation -- Summary: A knowledge economy for the few -- References -- 4 Universities as engines of growth -- Introduction |
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The place and space of universitiesBoundaries under pressure -- Univer-cities -- A missing middle -- Summary: Institutions and the knowledge economy -- References -- 5 Knowing the city -- Introduction -- Knowledge matters -- Expertise and the university -- Boundaries, analysis and democracy -- Excellence and relevance in the game of scales -- Summary: Knowledge, context and action -- References -- PART III Possibilities -- 6 Excavating alternatives in the shadows of the knowledge economy -- Introduction -- Forging alternative urban imaginaries |
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Control, participation and coproductionLearning from alternatives -- Challenging dominant frames -- Summary: The search for just and sustainable possibilities -- References -- 7 Critique and transformation in the â#x80;#x98;realâ#x80;#x99; university -- Introduction -- Searching for the â#x80;#x98;realâ#x80;#x99; university -- Difference, resistance and transformation -- Forging a critical, engaged research practice -- Participation and possibility: Ambivalence in action -- Summary: Spaces of mediating relations -- References -- 8 Organising for participative futures -- Introduction |
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Beyond knowledge for the â#x80;#x98;economyâ#x80;#x99;Boundaries: The why, how and what of knowledge -- Changing contexts: Contextualisation, uncertainty and complexity -- Wicked problems, just outcomes? -- Social scientific knowledge in action -- Active intermediation and reflexive spaces -- Summary: Mobilising social science to inform possibility -- References |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community development, Urban.
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Knowledge economy.
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Community development, Urban
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Knowledge economy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beth Perry
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| ISBN |
9781317609438 |
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1317609433 |
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