1st Edition

Knowledge Economy and the City Spaces of knowledge

By Ali Madanipour Copyright 2011
264 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging, it is similarly expected to produce its own space to suit the new circumstances of production and... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: City and Economy  2. Reality, Dream or Rhetoric?  3. Economy, Society and Space  Part 2: Changing Nature of Production  4. Intangible Products, Tangible Places  5. Knowledge as Productive Capacity  6. Digital Technology and the Mediated City  7. Global Organization of Production  Part 3: Sites of Production and Consumption  8. Sites of Knowledge Production  9. Sites of Differentiated Consumption  10. Spaces of Knowledge?  Bibliography

Biography

Madanipour, Ali