Knowledge Makes Cities: Education and Knowledge in Recent Urban Development. The Case of Heidelberg, Germany

Gerhard, Ulrike; Hœlscher, Michael

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95115-4_6

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“…Furthermore, critical voices accuse 'creative class' and 'creative city' discourses of hiding underlying objectives, such as attracting external investors, increasing land value and city branding (Doucet et al, 2011;Sacco et al, 2014;Sechi, 2016). They are seen as a neoliberal tool that legitimates massive investment flows for large-scale projects and responds to the needs of upper and middle classes, and thus entails the risk of growing social polarization (Gerhard and Hoelscher, 2017;Moulaert et al, 2001;Shaw, 2013).…”

Section: Socio-spatial Integration: a Key For Shared Growth Or A Poli...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This urban turn in knowledge-related, technical and scientific activities was led under the influence of the 'knowledge economy' paradigm and new urban strategies (Gerhard and Hoelscher, 2017). In Europe, it has been politically supported by the European Commission, with 20 years of economic agendas promoting R&D with the Lisbon strategy and its successor, the Europe 2020 initiative.…”

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Investigating the local socio-spatial integration of the Belval knowledge district into Esch/Alzette: A dissimilarity-based approach

Birsens

Decoville

2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The social and spatial integration of knowledge-related urban development projects into their urban environment is seen by policymakers as a necessity to unlock local and regional growth dynamics and regeneration. However, the understanding of socio-spatial integration, and how it can be scientifically analysed and interpreted at a local scale remains somewhat vague when the concept is not approached in its totality and measured by unidimensional indicators. The current article first proposes a holistic and multidimensional analytical framework to measure and analyse the socio-spatial integration of knowledge districts. Then, it focuses on one specific dimension – the structural dissimilarities between territories – and suggests an indicator-based multivariate analysis that is applied to the case of Belval, in Esch/Alzette (Luxembourg). Our findings for the Belval case study show that the structural dissimilarities between knowledge districts and adjacent neighbourhoods are mainly due to the young, international and professional profile of the population this place attracts, while differentials in terms of socio-economic status are much less significant than expected. In other words, the specificity of this knowledge district lies in the educational and migratory backgrounds of its inhabitants, rather than in their economic wealth. Accordingly, we call for a more nuanced debate concerning the urban integration of knowledge districts.

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Section: Socio-spatial Integration: a Key For Shared Growth Or A Poli...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the local socio-spatial integration of the Belval knowledge district into Esch/Alzette: A dissimilarity-based approach

Birsens

Decoville

2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…One important critique concerns the contested size of the alleged creative class and the actual amount of creative industries in any given city (see Peck 2012;Gerhard 2017;McDowell 2017). Another important critique concerns the problem of causality (Peck 2005): "Street-level cultural innovation and conspicuous consumption may just as easily be consequences of economic growth, rather than causes of it" (p. 755).…”

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“…That policy-makers will never be certain whether the creative city policy will really bear fruit is another point of concern. In effect, some even wonder whether we are really looking at something special or new at all (see Gerhard 2017).…”

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“…Returning to the notion of ideology, we can begin to see that the discourse on creative cities does not only thrive on an idealized conception of the creative worker (see Castells 1977Castells [1972Peck 2005;McDowell 2017), but by implication an idealized conception of the good city (see Gerhard 2017). Such conceptions of the city leave unattended spaces both of the unequal divisions of labor and of uneven-development of capital, in which these practices are embedded.…”

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Entering a Knowledge Pearl in Times of Creative Cities Policy and Strategy. The Case of Groningen, Netherlands

Beaumont

Yildiz

2016

Inequalities in Creative Cities

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In this chapter we critically examine the notion of the creative cities paradigm in terms of socio-spatial inequalities, with reference to the knowledge pearl of Groningen in the northern region of The Netherlands.On Wednesday, 21 January 2015, the newspaper of the University of Groningen (RUG) announced that the university, together with the Hanze University of Applied Science (Hanze), the municipality, and the provincial government, would invest 14-17 million euro in the coming years "to transform the campus (de Zernike Campus) from a grey, liminal zone to a lively Silicon Valley". This transformation would consist mainly of the construction of more green spaces and walking corridors to connect both sides of the Campus. New space will be made for small retail outlets, catering businesses, enterprises, and potentially an international student

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Image and implementation of sustainable urban development: Showcase projects and other projects in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen, Germany

Growe

Freytag

2019

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The principles of sustainability are currently applied in Germany and many other countries as important guidelines for urban development. However, different forms of understanding regarding sustainable development and different approaches concerning its implementation can be found in various spatial contexts. This paper focuses on Freiburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen, three cities in southwestern Germany. These cities produce different images due to ambitious urban development plans which are based on the three pillars of ecological, economic and social sustainability in different ways. Numerous similarities between these three cities notwithstanding, they highlight different aspects of sustainable urban development and emphasise them via particularly widespread awareness of ‘showcase projects’. For Freiburg, this includes Vauban and Rieselfeld, for Heidelberg Bahnstadt, and for Tübingen Französisches Viertel and Loretto. The central questions in this paper are therefore: How do images and the implementation of sustainability differ with regard to the three pillars of sustainability? How can differences and similarities with regard to the three pillars of sustainability be explained and what consequences can be drawn for future studies in sustainable urban development? Following a classification of research perspectives on sustainable urban development, distinguishing between more practically oriented aspects, on the one hand, and theory-based critical considerations, on the other, this article examines showcase projects from the three selected cities on the basis of planning documents, websites, local newspapers and academic literature. Moreover, further projects are taken into consideration. The paper concludes with general observations and discussions concerning the image and implementation of sustainable urban development.

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Knowledge Makes Cities: Education and Knowledge in Recent Urban Development. The Case of Heidelberg, Germany

Cited by 3 publications

References 46 publications

Investigating the local socio-spatial integration of the Belval knowledge district into Esch/Alzette: A dissimilarity-based approach

Investigating the local socio-spatial integration of the Belval knowledge district into Esch/Alzette: A dissimilarity-based approach

Entering a Knowledge Pearl in Times of Creative Cities Policy and Strategy. The Case of Groningen, Netherlands

Image and implementation of sustainable urban development: Showcase projects and other projects in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen, Germany

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