Este libro se enmarca en la búsqueda de nuevos patrones de desarrollo que inspiren la renovación profunda de la economía, la industria, la sociedad y el medio urbano en su conjunto. El objetivo es profundizar en una interpretación particular del concepto de desarrollo competitivo y sostenible aplicado al territorio del siglo XXI a través del concepto de territorios inteligentes. Para ello, se desarrolla un modelo conceptual de territorios inteligentes, presentándose tanto la arquitectura básica del mismo, como los agentes y vectores de desarrollo que lo conforman. El modelo se construye a partir de una revisión de la literatura así como de las lecciones derivadas de una selección de casos de estudio referidos a ciudades y regiones localizadas en diferentes países. La selección de casos de estudio se ha realizado siguiendo un criterio de diversidad. Se han incluido experiencias de ciudades que tras sufrir un proceso de desindustrialización han sido capaces de avanzar hacia su configuración como territorio inteligente. También, se han recogido casos de ciudades que destacan por ser un ejemplo paradigmático y excepcional de desarrollo en alguno de los ámbitos que caracterizan a un territorio inteligente. Asimismo, se han incorporado prácticas de lugares que, desde décadas pasadas, han adoptado trayectorias de excelencia en uno o varios de los fundamentos de un territorio inteligente.

The concept of social innovation offers an alternative perspective on development and territorial transformation, one which foregrounds innovation in social relations. This volume presents a broad-ranging and insightful exploration of social innovation and how it can affect life, society and economy, especially within local communities. It addresses key questions about the nature of social innovation as a process and a strategy and explores what opportunities may exist, or may be generated, for social innovation to nourish human development. It puts forward alternative development options which variously highlight solidarity, co-operation, cultural-artistic endeavour and diversity. In doing so, this book offers a provocative response to the predominant neoliberal economic vision of spatial, economic and social change.

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of reference for those interested in delving into debates arising from the performance of traditional and new media, cultural and communication policy-making or sociocultural practices in the new digital landscape.

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is supposed to develop imaginative and innovative solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental problems: economic stagnancy, urban shrinkage, social segregation, global competition or more. Cities and regions around the world are trying to develop, facilitate or promote concentrations of creative, innovative and/or knowledge-intensive industries in order to become more competitive. These places are seeking new strategies to combine economic development with quality of place that will increase economic productivity and encourage growth. Against this increasing interest in creative cities, this volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities, and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policies and recommendations towards the sustainable city. It brings together leading academics with different approaches from different disciplines to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of creativity and sustainability of the city, linking research and practice. In doing so, it puts forward ideas about stimulating the production of an innovative knowledge for a creative and sustainable city, and transforming a specific knowledge into a general common knowledge, which suggests best future policy actions, decision-making processes and choices for the change towards a human sustainable development of the city.

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.