Titlebook: Urban Innovation Networks; Understanding the Ci Alexander Gutzmer Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Actor-networ

愤慨点吧

Urban Intensities: Architecture, Design, Affect,s to understand the twenty-first century (post-global) city as resource with reference to the notion of knowledge. To what extent can architecture contribute to the (in the first instance clearly capitalist) idea of a “knowledge city” (Edvinsson 2006) be seen as reality?

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秘传

Audi, Siemens, Ikea, Haus der Kunst, Igreja Universal: Five Urban Strategies,cally, each of them seems to have an own way of understanding the city as a resource along the lines developed in Chap. .. This is why I will structure each of the sub-chapters below in a similar way: I will first present the individual case in question with a focus on its strategic specifics and on

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纵欲

沙发

Globalized Space Versus Refuge of Locality? Beyond the , Discourse,esource brings with it significant deviations from the ways in which Sassen and others envisaged their “global cities”. I will therefore introduce the global cities discourse at this point, but also present arguments what my main thesis in this book has a slightly different perspective.

两种语言

Introduction, The internal richness of personalities, motivations and talents is at best seen as a subset of values that all entirely absorbed by the big value behemoth that is the company and its goals, strategies, missions and visions.

壕沟

Introduction,ds. These people are increasingly asked to bring as much of their very individual creativity to the table as possible. Their ideas, their knowledge, sometimes even their dreams. And yet, many business discourses still treat companies as homogeneous entities, with one culture, one goal, one strategy.

苦恼

Globalized Space Versus Refuge of Locality? Beyond the , Discourse,hat clearly reach beyond the pure locality of the urban field. Hence, this work is in some ways influenced by the significant body of research that has in the last 40 years appeared under the heading of the “global cities discourse” (see for instance Cohen et al. 1981; Friedmann 1986; or Sassen 1991

BIAS

Rethinking the City: Actor-Network Theory and the Creation of Urban Connections,rations of concrete and people, and also not simply as givens. Rather, the city today presents itself as a virtuality: a permanently changing, unstable set of forces and potentials. As a collective dream, a very real dream world, and as a never-ending project in the eyes of all involved.