The city as a machine for learning

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-376

  Mcfarlane, Colin ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critique; Knowledge; Marginality; Participation; Tactics; Urban learning

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; URBAN AREA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958279535     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00430.x     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Abers R 2000 Inventing local democracy: grassroots politics in Brazil Lynne Rienner, Boulder CO
2. Amin A 2006 The good city Urban Studies 43 1009-23
3. Amin A and Cohendet P 2004 Architectures of knowledge: firms, capabilities and communities Oxford University Press, Oxford
4. Amin A and Roberts J 2008 Community, economic creativity and organization Oxford University Press, Oxford
5. Arputham J 2008 Developing new approaches for people-centred development Environment and Urbanization 20 319-37
6. Atkinson R 1999 Discourses of partnership and empowerment in contemporary British urban regeneration Urban Studies 36 59-72
7. Baiocchi G 2001 Participation, activism, and politics: the Porto Alegre experiment and deliberative democratic theory Politics & Society 29 43-72
8. Bourdieu P 1991 Language and symbolic power Raymond G and Adamson M trans Thompson J ed Harvard University Press, Massachusetts
9. Brenner N 2009 What is critical urban theory? City 13 195-204
10. Bunnell T and Coe N M 2005 Re-fragmenting the political: globalization, governmentality and Malaysia's multimedia super corridor Political Geography 831-49
11. Callon M, Lascoumes P and Barthe Y 2009 Acting in an uncertain world: an essay in technical democracy MIT Press, Cambridge MA
12. Campbell T 2008 Learning cities: knowledge, capacity and competitiveness Habitat International 33 195-201
13. Castells M 1996 The rise of the network society Blackwell, Oxford
14. Chattopadhyay S 2009 The art of auto-mobility Journal of Material Culture 14 107-39
15. Cooke B and Kothari U eds 2001 Participation: the new tyranny Zed Press, London
16. Cumbers A and MacKinnon D 2004 Clusters in urban and regional development Urban Studies 41 959-69
17. Cumbers A and MacKinnon D eds 2006 Clusters in urban and regional development Routledge, London
18. De Certeau M 1984 The practice of everyday life University of California Press, Berkeley CA
19. De Certeau M, Giard L and Mayol P 1998 The practice of everyday life. Vol. 2, Living and cooking University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN
20. Fejes A and Nicoll K eds 2008 Foucault and lifelong learning: governing the subject Routledge, London
21. Ferguson J 1994 The anti-politics machine: 'Development', depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
22. Fischer G 2001 Communities of interest: learning through the interaction of multiple knowledge systems in Bjornestad S, Moe R, Morch A and Opdahl A eds Proceedings of the 24th IRIS Conference, Ulvik Department of Information Science, Bergen, Norway 1-14
23. Florida R 2002 The rise of the creative class: and how it's transforming work, leisure, community, and everyday life Basic Books, New York
24. Florida R 2005 Cities and the creative class Routledge, New York
25. Foucault M 1980 Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977 Gordon C ed Harvester, London
26. Freire P 1970 Pedagogy of the oppressed Continuum, New York
27. Gertler M S 2003 A cultural economic geography of production: are we learning by doing? in Anderson K, Domosh M, Pile S and Thrift N eds The handbook of cultural geography Sage, London 131-46
28. Gertler M S 2004 Manufacturing culture: the institutional geography of industrial practice Oxford University Press, Oxford
29. Gertler M S and Wolfe D A eds 2002 Innovation and social learning: institutional adaptation in an era of technological change Macmillan/Palgrave, Basingstoke
30. Gherardi S and Nicolini D 2000 To transfer is to transform: the circulation of safety knowledge Organization 7 329-48
31. Gibson J 1979 The ecological approach to visual perception Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA
32. Glaeser E L 1999 Learning in cities NBER working paper 6271, Cambridge MA
33. Goldfrank B and Schrank A 2009 Municipal neoliberalism and municipal socialism: urban political economy in Latin America International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33 443-62
34. Grabher G 1993 The weakness of strong ties: the lock-in of regional development in the Ruhr area in Grabher G ed The embedded firm: on the socio-economics of industrial networks Routledge, London 255-77
35. Grabher G 2004 Temporary architectures of learning: knowledge governance in project ecologies Organization Studies 25 1491-14.
36. Grabher G and Ibert O 2006 Bad company? The ambiguity of personal knowledge networks Journal of Economic Geography 6 251-71
37. Graham S and Thrift N 2007 Out of order: understanding repair and maintenance Theory, Culture & Society 24 1-25
38. Greco J and Sosa E eds 1999 The Blackwell guide to epistemology Blackwell, Oxford
39. Gregory D 2000 Cultures of travel and spatial formations of knowledge Erdkunde 54 297-309
40. Habermas J 1989[1962] The structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society Polity, Cambridge
41. Hansen T B and Verkaaik O 2009 Introduction - urban charisma: on everyday mythologies in the city Critique of Anthropology 29 5-26
42. Haraway D 1991 Simians, cyborgs and women: the reinvention of nature Free Association Books, London
43. Harvey D 1989 From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation of urban governance in late capitalism Geografiska Annaler B 71 3-17
44. Harvey D 2008 The right to the city New Left Review 53 23-40
45. Heidegger M 1971 Building dwelling thinking in Poetry, language, thought Hofstadter A trans Harper and Row, New York
46. Hollands R 2008 Will the real smart city please stand up? Intelligent, progressive or entrepreneurial? City 12 303-20
47. Hutchins E 1995 Cognition in the wild MIT Press, Cambridge MA
48. Ingold T 2000 The perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill Routledge, London
49. Iveson K 2007 Publics and the city Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
50. Keith M 2005 After the cosmopolitan Routledge, London
51. King A D 2004 Spaces of global cultures: architecture, urbanism, identity Routledge, London
52. Latour B 1986 The power of association in Law J ed Power, action and belief: a new sociology of knowledge? Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 264-80
53. Latour B 1999 Pandora's hope: essays on the reality of science studies Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA
54. Law J 2000 Transitivities Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18 133-48
55. Leadbeater C 2000 Living on thin air: the new economy Penguin, London
56. Le Corbusier 2008 [1923] Towards a new architecture BN Publishing
57. Lees L, Slater T and Wyly E 2008 Gentrification Routledge, New York
58. Lefebvre H 1996[1967] The right to the city in Kofman E and Lebas E eds Writings on cities Blackwell, London 63-184
59. Machlup F 1962 Production and distribution of knowledge Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ
60. MacKinnon D 2008 Evolution, path-dependence, and economic geography Geography Compass 2 1449-63
61. Marcuse P 2009 From critical urbanism to right to the city City 13 185-97
62. Masser I and Williams R H 1986 Learning from other countries: the cross-national dimension in urban policy-making Geobooks/Elsevier, Norwich
63. McCann E J 2007 Expertise, truth, and urban policy mobilities: global circuits of knowledge in the development of Vancouver, Canada's 'four pillar' drug strategy Environment and Planning A 40 805-904
64. McCann E and Ward K 2010 Relationality/territoriality: toward a conceptualization of cities in the world Geoforum 41 175-84
65. McCann E and Ward K eds forthcoming Mobile urbanism: Cities & policy-making in the global age Minnesota University Press, Minnesota
66. McFarlane C forthcoming Learning the city: knowledge and translocal assemblage Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
67. Moser C 1996 Confronting crisis: a comparative study of household responses to poverty and vulnerability in four poor urban communities The World Bank, Washington DC
68. Nasr J and Volait M eds 2003 Urbanism: imported or exported? Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
69. Nonaka I, Toyama R and Konno N 2000 SECI, Ba and leadership: a unified model of dynamic knowledge creation Long Range Planning 33 5-34
70. Peck J 2005 Struggling with the creative class International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29 740-70
71. Peck J 2006 Liberating the city: between New York and New Orleans Urban Geography 27 681-713
72. Peck J and Theodore N 2010 Mobilizing policy: models, methods and mutations Geoforum 41 169-74
73. Pieterse E 2008 City futures: confronting the crisis of urban development Zed Books, London
74. Polanyi M 1966[1983] The tacit dimension Doubleday, New York
75. Polanyi M 1969 Knowing and being University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL
76. Schumpeter J 1934 Theory of economic development Harvard University Press, London
77. Scott J C 1988 Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance Yale University Press, Yale
78. Scott A J 2006 A perspective of economic geography in Bagchi-Sen S and Lawton Smith H eds Economic geography: past, present and future Routledge, Oxford 56-80
79. Sennett R 2008 The craftsman Allen Lane, London
80. Simone A 2008 The politics of the possible: making urban life in Phnom Penh Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29 186-204
81. Sintomer Y, Herzberg C and Rocke A 2008 Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32 164-78
82. Storper M and Scott A J 2009 Rethinking human capital, creativity and urban growth Journal of Economic Geography 9 147-67
83. Sutcliffe A 1981 Towards the planned city, Germany, Britain, the United States and France, 1780-1914 Basil Blackwell, Oxford
84. UNDP 2003 Partnership for local capacity development: building on the experiences of city-to-city cooperation UNDP, New York
85. Wacquant L 2008 The militarization of urban marginality: lessons from the Brazilian metropolis International Political Sociology 2 56-74
86. Ward K 2006 Policies in motion, urban management and state restructuring: the trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 54-70
87. Wenger E 1998 Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
88. Whatmore S 2006 Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world Cultural Geographies 13 600-9
89. Williams G 2004 Evaluating participatory development: tyranny, power and (re)politicisation Third World Quarterly 25 557-79