ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how tacit knowledge conversion is building intangible, knowledge-based scaffolding and infrastructure in urban milieus. It presents the role of knowledge in city building in order to give a context for the meaning-creation processes that define value-based taxonomies, such as the knowledge city (KC) concept. The chapter attempts to bring further understanding regarding how intangible infrastructures contribute to the creation of new knowledge-based urban community paradigms. It describes the nature and functions of network-based social structures, which are seemingly the basis of most initiatives in emerging relational societies. The chapter discusses social capital and networks. It then reviews the social capital models and network-based social forms, especially those that support knowledge flows, both tacit and codified, in diverse social structures. The chapter describes some milieus in which knowledge, wealth and innovation are created quasi-independently of the current social systems.
