EUKN - Germany - Learning cities in a knowledge-based society

Learning cities in a knowledge-based society - Milan, 9-11 October 2008

09-10-2008

Introduction

This EURA (European Urban Research Association) conference will focus its attention on the exploration of several of today's major challenges for cities and will foster a lively exchange and debate among researchers in the field of urban studies, particularly pointing at interactions among forms of knowledge and forms of urban governance.

Description

Contemporary cities can be considered as learning places under different points of view:

as central nodes of a knowledge based economy, where concentration and exchange of information and innovation generated by people and firms produce new forms of economy, welfare and richness, but also new forms of poverty and exclusion;
as social laboratories, places which exposes continuously their citizens to the effects of social transformation: laboratories in which the notion of citizenship is questioned and people have to learn to deal with change and the multiplication of differences generated by a mobile, multicultural society;
as settings for institutional and political innovation: where major transformations compel institutions to face with new emerging problems of contemporary society and to develop new learning skills and experience new forms of governance, leadership, democracy, policies and politics.

These major issues for cities will be discussed during this EURA conference in Milan.

For more information or to register, please send an email to euraconference2008@polimi.it

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Files

Click here to download the EURA conference leaflet (PDF, Eng, 95 kB)

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