ABSTRACT
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.
