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Can cities shape socio-technical transitions and how would we know if they were?

‘The Fourth Pillar’ provides a clear definition of culture, analyses its function within the emerging new planning paradigms and proposes practical measures for the integration of a cultural perspective into the public sphere. Its key conclusion is that a whole-ofgovernment cultural framework, operating in parallel with social, environmental and economic frameworks, is essential for the achievement of a sustainable and healthy society.

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The fourth pillar of sustainability: culture’s essential role in public planning

Throughout western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda. Since the early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination, regionwide spatial planning and metropolitan institutional organization have been promoted in major city-regions. In contrast to the forms of metropolitan governance that prevailed during the Fordist-Keynesian period - which emphasized administrative modernization, interterritorial equalization and the efficient delivery of public services - the newest wave of metropolitan governance reform is focused upon economic priorities such as territorial competitiveness and attracting external capital investment in the context of geoeconomic and European integration. This article develops an interpretation of the new metropolitan governance in western Europe in two steps. First, I situate the new metropolitan governance in historical context by underscoring its qualitative differences from earlier waves of metropolitan institutional reform. Second, building...

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Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe

Decoding the Newest “Metropolitan Regionalism” in the USA: A Critical Overview

In the globalizing world, knowledge and information (and the social and technological settings for their production and communication) are now seen as keys to economic prosperity. The economy of a knowledge city creates value-added products using research, technology, and brainpower. The social benefit of knowledge-based urban development (KBUD); however, extends beyond aggregate economic growth. "Knowledge-Based Urban Development" covers the theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge cities to underline the growing importance of KBUD all around the world, providing academics, researchers, and practitioners with substantive research on the decisive lineaments of urban development for knowledge-based production (drawing attention to new planning processes to foster such development), and worldwide best practices and case studies in the field of urban development.

Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era

This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.

Transforming Cities : Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions

Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book indicates various ways in which attempts are being made to knit together members of partnerships, in the interests of effectiveness and integration. It offers remarkably topical discussions of cities and urban policies in the 1990s whilst, at the same time, locating current trends in a broader context. The renewal of theoretical and empirical work in urban sociology has been brought about by a recognition of the significance of cities within the forms and dynamics of western capitalism. The restructuring of urban employment relations has been a global process, generating new international divisions and connections between capital, labour and resources. Governance can be defined as 'the control of an activity by some means such that a range of defined outcomes is attained'. There is a need for detailed empirical studies of the place of partnerships within restructured urban institutions, organisations and relations.

Susanne MacGregor

Papers

Transforming Cities : Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions

Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

Transforming Cities : Social exclusion and the reinvention of partnership