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Learning Cities |
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by Tim Campbell, PhD. This paper draws on quantitative evidence and case examples from both developed and developing countries to construct a typology of mainstream modes of city learning. Case observations suggest that the best learners are deliberate and systematic, finding or creating new knowledge, converting it to use, and storing learning experiences that draw on collective memory. Useful knowledge of learning resides in two main forms: one is hard data, stored in documents, computers, or specialized units of government; another is soft data stored in professional and social networks that link a wide array of actors in the community, not just staff in the city bureaucracy. The overarching conclusions of the paper are that several kinds of learning systems can be observed, that these should be explored more carefully, that policies can help to facilitate learning, and that a radical departure from customary policy, especially in donor institutions, may be needed to effectively meet requirements of institutional capacity building in cities of the developing world. Read Article (PDF) |
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Beyond the Bricks |
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Policy Successes and Troubling Outcomes: Households, Mobility and Communities of the Poor in Rio’s Favelas
by Tim Campbell, PhD
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Which Way Out? Favela as Lethal Hall of Mirrors |
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This note, prepared for a seminar sponsored jointly by the Fetzer Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, describes the dangers of favela life and explores mobility, both socio-economic and geographic, for generations of low income families. Survey data show that social networks are an important mechanism of change, and that over time, networks have lost their capacity to function, making it more difficult for some residents to find their way out of a lethal environment. By seeing how network ties have broken down over several generations, we gain insight into the downward spiral of community dysfunction. Read Article (PDF) |
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Learning Cities |
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Anecdotal and quantitative evidence suggests that a large shadow market for knowledge has already formed among cities around the world. Case observations reviewed here suggest that the best learners are deliberate and systematic, finding or creating new knowledge, converting it to use, and storing learning experiences that draw on collective memory. Acquired knowledge resides in two main forms: one is hard data, stored in documents, computers, or specialized units of government. Another is soft data stored in professional and social networks that link a wide array of actors in the community—not just staff in the city bureaucracy. The analysis leads to a number of propositions that deserve attention and testing: several kinds of learning systems can be observed, that the process of learning may be as important as the product in contributing to competitiveness, that policies can helpful to facilitate learning, and that a radical departure from customary policy, especially in donor institutions, may be needed to effectively meet requirements of institutional capacity building in cities of the developing world. Learning Cities paper (PDF) |
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Emerging Disease Burdens and the Poor in Cities |
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By Tim Campbell and Alana Campbell Read Article (PDF) The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
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USI Publications |
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Urban Age Institute is proud to announce the recent publishing of
Cities on the Rise: Lessons in Becoming Sustainable Download Publication (PDF)
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Smart Cities: Curitiba |
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by Tim Campbell To be competitive, cities must act a little like companies, creating a learning milieu by building a knowledge machine. Read Article (PDF) |
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Reinventing France’s Second City |
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by Gordon Feller Lyon is pursuing a more sustainable infrastructure for its many development projects. Read Article (PDF) |
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Smart Cities: Bilbao |
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by Tim Campbell Knowledge exchange and a sustained focus on mechanisms to gather and absorb information over time are central features of learning cities. Read Article (PDF) |
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Asian Giants |
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by Tim Campbell High-profile cities in China and India only partly reflect a much more complicated reality in both countries. Read Article (PDF) |
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Interview with Tim Campbell, Development Gateway Fdn. (2006) |
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Past Papers and Articles 