Abstract
This chapter critically examines the challenges for the development of new styles of urbanism that are not only sustainable but also knowledge-based. It is divided into three sections. In section one, dominant and alternative responses to the twin challenges of climate change and the knowledge economy are briefly examined. The chapter argues that existing knowledges and accepted wisdoms need to be unbundled and critically assessed to better understand how dominant models are developed and transferred and with what potential implications for cities and city-regions in different contexts. We argue that an alternative rebundling of a wider set of knowledges at the urban level is needed, to bring different social interests and visions together for a more sustainable urbanism to develop.
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For more information, please see http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk
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See Arup (2005). Arup unveils plans for world’s first sustainable city in Dongtan, China. Available from: http://www.arup.com/arup/newsitem.cfm?pageid=7009. (Accessed 6 May 2009), http://www.masdar.ae/en/home/index.aspx, http://www.siemens.com/entry/cc/en/urbanization.htm?section=green_index
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The C40 was formed in 2005 and is a group of the ‘World’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change (because) cities and urban areas consume 75 % of the world’s energy and produce up to 75 % of its greenhouse gas emissions’. See http://www.c40cities.org/
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See http://www.transitiontowns.org/. (Accessed 29 January 2008) and http://relocalize.net/about/relocalization. (Accessed 29 January 2008).
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We have drawn on a number of projects carried out at SURF over the past 10 years. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the support of Mistra – Urban Futures and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Retrofitting the City in supporting the consolidation of this work.
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Perry, B., May, T., Marvin, S., Hodson, M. (2013). Re-thinking Sustainable Knowledge-Based Urbanism Through Active Intermediation. In: Andersen, H., Atkinson, R. (eds) Production and Use of Urban Knowledge. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8936-6_8
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