Can We Plan the Creative Knowledge City?

Reflecting the differing approaches across Western and Eastern Europe, the contributors to this issue of Built Environment explore the pathways towards creative and/or knowledge cities and discuss the implications for such cities in terms of social inclusion and planning policies – issues which are of critical importance in the face of world economic recession.

 

• Can We Plan the Creative Knowledge City? Perspectives from Western and Eastern Europe
  Caroline Chapain and Peter Lee
• Rethinking the Knowledge-Based Economy
  Chris Collinge and Adreene Staines
• Creative and Knowledge Cities: Development Paths and Policies from a European Perspective
  Sako Musterd and Olga Gritsai
• Becoming a Creative City: The Role of Policy in the Case of Sofi a
  Evgenii Dainov
• Becoming a Knowledge City: The Example of Toulouse
  Elisabeth Peyroux, Michel Grossett i and Denis Eckert
• The Emergence of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as an International Hub of the Knowledge Industries
  Mari Vaatt Ovaara
• The Barcelona Metropolitan Region: From Non-Existence to Fame
  Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway
• Creative Cities in England: Researching Realities and Images
  Caroline Chapain and Roberta Comunian
• ‘Complexcities’: Locational Choices of Creative Knowledge Workers
  Julie Brown and Michał Męczyński
• Knowledge-Based Economy and Related Educational Issues: The Case of Birmingham
  John Gibney, Alex Burfi tt and Alan Murie
• The Creative Economy and Social Sustainability: Planning for Opportunity and Growth
  Peter Lee, Alex Burfi tt and Andrew Tice
• Deepening Social Divisions and the Discourse of Knowledge and Creativity across the Cities of Europe
  Chris Collinge and Sako Musterd