You are Invited: Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn, and Innovate
May 24, 2012 Leave a comment
Please join the Comparative Urban Studies Project for a discussion of
Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn, and Innovate
featuring
Tim Campbell, The Urban Age Institute
Neal Peirce, Citiscope Project and Washington Post Writers Group
Fernando Rojas, The World Bank
Thursday, May 24, 2012
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
To achieve the real promise of smart cities—that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation that has led cities like Seattle, Barcelona, Ahmedabad and Curitiba to keep pace with economic change—we need to understand what is below the surface of smart and connected places. Yet, city learning is a blind spot in policy on urban development and city innovation. Few cities and even fewer national institutions give much attention to the civil mechanisms behind innovation. Collective learning is one of them, but it is not only what is learned; a key factor is how learning takes place in cities.
Join us in a discussion of the findings of Tim Campbell’s latest work. Beyond Smart Cities raises as many questions as it answers. Some of the most important for future work involve a deeper analysis of networks of learning elites, the elements in efficiency of learning, how a market of exchange might be organized and regulated, and longitudinal and cross-city experience of learning outcomes
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