Knowledge in Cities

Gabe, Todd; Abel, Jaison R.; Ross, Adrienne; Stolarick, Kevin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1673492

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“…The datasets that were analysed have been made publicly available in the Dataverse repository (Shutters S, Muneepeerakul R, Lobo J, 2015). These data capture the numbers of workers employed in approximately 800 different occupations in each MSA and, consequently, the skill sets prevalent in the labour pool of an MSA's economy at a given point in time (Jones and Romer, 2010;Glaeser, 2011;Florida, 2012;Gabe et al, 2012). We focus on city-level occupational data in the United States due to their availability and the inherent importance of urban economies to both the U.S. and global economies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Quantifying urban economic resilience through labour force interdependence

2015

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Resilience is increasing rapidly as a framework to understand and manage coupled human-natural systems. Yet the concept of resilience is rarely quantified. Here we quantify system resilience by operationalizing the notion of system tightness. Multiple resilience frameworks recognize the strong relationship between system tightness and resilience, though they differ on the directionality of that relationship. Thus, by measuring the system tightness we ultimately measure urban economic resilience, with the added benefit of empirically determining the directionality of the relationship between tightness and resilience. We then assess how well this measure predicts the response of urban economies to the recent so-called Great Recession. Results show that cities with lower tightness (higher resilience) fared better during the recession with respect to several economic productivity measures. However, in the absence of shocks, those with higher tightness (lower resilience) exhibit superior economic performance. Thus, a tradeoff between efficiency and resilience is nicely reflected in the empirical data. Although this study deals with economic shocks, quantitative metrics based on its methodology may help anticipate a city's response to shocks more generally, such as natural disasters, climate change, social unrest or significant policy shifts.

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confidence: 99%

Quantifying urban economic resilience through labour force interdependence

2015

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“…Literature on KBUD indicates that becoming a prosperous knowledge city requires perspectives in addition to those of KBUD: capitalizing on socioeconomic aspects of the development; also, investing in space/place and organizational excellence (Carrillo et al, 2014;Gabe et al, 2012). In the present study, we adopt the KBUD conceptual framework as an overall guide in undertaking quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate Istanbul's KBUD.…”

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“…Economic development: Istanbul has achieved a thriving economic performance by seeing city as the economy, but performance is only commodity-based products and mainly depends on internal consumption. As Gabe et al (2012) state, seeing 'knowledge' as the economy is a more appropriate approach for Istanbul. Even if some achievements have been recorded in the IT, defense, and finance sectors, in knowledge economy activities the city performs poorly: Turkey ranks 69th globally and last in Europe in innovation.…”

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“…Pressures and new developments in the knowledge economy era (Cooke and Leydersdoff, 2006) have prompted cities to focus on their competitive strategies (Gabe et al, 2012). This has brought a new perspective to urban planning and development (Van Winden, 2010), and knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has become a popular policy for cities aiming to increase their competitive edge (Huggins, 2010), upgrade infrastructures (Bulu, 2013), and improve quality of life (Yigitcanlar et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dubaization of Istanbul: Insights from the Knowledge-Based Urban Development Journey of an Emerging Local Economy

Yiğitcanlar

Bulu

2015

Environ Plan A

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Abstract. Knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has become a popular pursuit for cities, especially from the developing countries, to fast track the catching up process with their counterparts in developed nations. Nevertheless, for these cities the KBUD progress is daunting and full of challenges. The authors aim to shed light on the major KBUD challenges of emerging local economies by undertaking an in-depth empirical investigation in one such city. They scrutinize the prospects and constraints of Istanbul in her KBUD journey through comparative performance and policy context analyses. The findings reveal invaluable insights, not only for Istanbul to reshape the policy context and align development with contemporary KBUD better, but also for other emerging local economies to learn from these experiences.

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“…In the literature there are different interpretations as regards to which type of knowledge assets are particularly valuable, where they might be located and who play the critical role in managing and manipulating those (Florida, 1995;Knight, 1995;Corno et al, 1999;Sotarauta, 2010;Asheim et al, 2011;Lerro & Schiuma, 2011;Gabe et al, 2012;Strambach & Klement, 2012). The literature also highlights an important characteristic of regional knowledge assets: they are idiosyncratic by nature (Lerro & Schiuma, 2011;Käpylä, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%