City geopolitics of knowledge-based economization

• Published in: Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy pp. 116 - 152
• Main Author: Sami, Moisio
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2018
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Human geography; Knowledge Intensive Capitalism; Helsingin Sanomat; Homogenized State Territories; Guggenheim Foundation; Superstar Cities; Self-di Rection; Intercultural Cities; Territorial Competition; Geopolitical Discourses; Smart Cities; Smart Inhabitants; Spatial Keynesianism; Creative City; University Ranking Schemes; Urban Audit; Contemporary Geopolitical Condition; Creative Class Theory; Knowledge Intensive Form; Urban Geopolitics; Geopolitical Assemblage; Creative Class; State Spatial Restructuring; Finnish Higher Education Policies; Geopolitical Subjects
• ISBN: 9781138821996; 9780367871314; 1138821993; 0367871319
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315742984-7

This chapter provides "city geopolitics", which is at the heart of the phenomenon of knowledge-based economization. It deals with conceptualizing city geopolitics, before entering into a selected set of theories on the ways in which the knowledge-based economy, urban space and territorial competition come together. The knowledge-based economy has become a significant meta-object of urban governance and planning. An attempt to produce value in places - be it a city, a region or a state - is at the heart of the process of knowledge-based economization. The theory is premised on the view that the knowledge-based economy is characterized by a movement away from prosperity and wealth as understood in terms of homogenized state territories. The Guggenheim Helsinki in particular uncovers the uneasy entanglement of knowledge-based economization through mega-projects at the present political-economic conjuncture. The imaginary of the knowledge-based economy almost invariably articulates certain substances of urban space as prerequisites for creative and thus putatively innovative human behavior.