Learning from Elsewhere? A Critical Account on the Mobilisation of Metropolitan Policies

Schmitt, Peter

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“…Instead, ideas and beliefs on how to do things change or mutate as they are circulated between actors across space (McCann 2011;McCann and Ward 2011). In addition, their implementation is subject to 'barriers' of various kinds (McLean and Borén 2015; see also Stein et al 2017;Schmitt 2020). Temenos and McCann (2012) argue that for new ideas to enter a place successfully, the place has to be prepared; it needs a certain institutional 'fix' in order to be able to receive, learn and implement new ideas and knowledge.…”

Section: On the Role Of Knowledge In Local Development Actionsmentioning

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Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning

Borén

Schmitt

2021

European Planning Studies

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The influential work by Barca on place-based development, which has permeated policy and academic discourses alike in recent years, builds on the premise that localities are expected to utilize their endogenous potential rather than placing their trust in redistributive policies. This endogenous potential involves local knowledge and place-based knowledge, and how these two types can tap into actions. This has barely been explored in a systematic and comparative manner. This paper therefore examines 20 urban and rural development actions across Europe in order to understand how, and the extent to which, local knowledge and place-based knowledge are mobilized (or not). It makes use of empirically informed evidence to identify evolving mechanisms and to analyse how learning loops are triggered. We argue that it is crucial for leading actors in such development actions to pay attention to these different mechanisms of mobilizing these two types of knowledge and how to trigger learning loops. Since this analysis also highlights a number of shortcomings and inhibitors regarding the extent to which these collective knowledge and learning capacities actually inform actions over time, the concept of 'networks of deep learning' is suggested as a knowledge management principle for key actors in local governance.

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Section: On the Role Of Knowledge In Local Development Actionsmentioning

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Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning

Borén

Schmitt

2021

European Planning Studies

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“…Under the headings of 'policy mobility', 'policy diffusion' or 'institutional transplant/ transfer', this phenomenon has attracted an enormous amount of scholarly attention in various disciplines ranging from comparative law (cf. Hein 2014Hein , 2016McNeill, Sanyal 2005Schmitt;Zimmermann). Broadly speaking, emphasis in this research has shifted from largely non-contextual, positivist-rationalist 'policy transfer' or 'transplant' to a more context-oriented, constructivist 'policy mobilities' paradigm.…”

Section: On a Central Gap In Policy Mobility Researchmentioning

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Charting Literary Urban Studies

Gurr¹

2020

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Charting Literary Urban StudiesGuided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities -and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory -and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe -such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' -really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary texts.

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Learning from Elsewhere? A Critical Account on the Mobilisation of Metropolitan Policies

Cited by 2 publications

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Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning

Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning

Charting Literary Urban Studies

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