ABSTRACT
Surely, science, education and innovation intensity can contribute signifi cantly to a city’s knowledge-based profi le, as assumed by the Knowledge Triangle model adopted by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT, 2012). But when the concept of knowledge-based development is applied to city attributes such as urban cohesion (Buck, Gordon, Harding, & Turok, 2005), urban identity (Pusic, 2004), urban resilience (Leichenko, 2011), or even nonurban communities such as Indigenous Culture s (Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network, 2012), Aboriginal Communities (Northern Territory of Australia, 2003) or Indian Villages (Batra, Payal, & Carrillo, 2013), then it obviously involves a wider meaning than cutting-edge technology-intensity communities, a meaning able to encompass all these urban dimensions and then more. In between, there are many contemporary development initiatives that seem to bring together the multidimensionality of urban knowledge, such as social entrepreneurship
and innovation, open dealing, green growth, happiness economics, crowd dealing, frugality and voluntary simplicity, sharing economies, peer-to-peer dealing, collaborative consumption, and so on (see Chapter 8 ). These are the diverse places where knowledge and the city are meeting today.
