Cities: between space and the condition of innovation

In general terms & eacute; poss & iacute; vel say that this occurs in fun & ccedil; & atilde; the two-din & acirc; mica that self-reinforcing & ccedil; am: (1) the R & oacute; pol gene & iacute; optical require short-term return to the m & iacute; nimo of mobilizes & ccedil; & atilde; the resources and (2) City & eacute; perceived as a structure to be transformed and n & HAND as the condition MAKE-HANDS, the urban.

Our ability anal & iacute; tica today & eacute; able to map a large set of factors to be considered when studying a city. Among the best known, we can stand out: Quest & otilde; is & aacute demographic; ficas, urban RIVER sticas, Architect & FLYING; Nicas, environmental, to & eacute; m s & das COLLISION cio-culturais. Each of these factors & eacute; deeply handled by a part of the power p & uacute; public and, some seldom, by civil society initiatives. As good as the intention & ccedil; & otilde; s and T & eacute; techniques available & iacute; MOBILE for conception MAKE-HANDS; e implements MAKE-HANDS, the pol & iacute; optical p uacute; PUBLIC, the results are often very limited.

The cities, despite all that has been done, still one SPACE; the crisis and you & otilde; s cont & iacute; naked. The conception & ccedil; & atilde, the atom & iacute; stica of the various factors that corroborate the construction & ccedil; & atilde, the city places us lose – rulers, governed and analysts – the id & eacute; was that the city has a condition & ccedil; & atilde, the urban. This means that cities & T ecirc; m din & acirc; pr & oacute mica; and Pippen, at the same time, is & HAND inserted within the larger network.

The conditions MAKE-HANDS, the urban is clear when discussing one of size & otilde; s to T & ecirc; m recently highlighted: urban creativity. N & atilde; s & HAND only the indiv & iacute; duos and companies that have competitively, the cities also & eacute; m. That, because cities & T ecirc; m the ability to attract or ward activities, productive investments, conditions & ccedil; & otilde; s brood & ccedil; & atilde, the, human capital.

Thereby, cities must develop compet & ecirc; TRENDS, character & iacute; sticas that enable them to attract econ activities & FLYING, monkeys and s & oacute; heat-antropol & oacute; gene that converge on the city's goals, for your want-to-be.

The case of the city of S & atilde; Paul & eacute; exemplary accordingly: Large metr & oacute; global pole, wealthy city, with great concentration & ccedil; & atilde; the decision & oacute posts; rivers, conference centers & ecirc; and exposure TRENDS & ccedil; & otilde; s able to design id & eacute; ias, universities producing HAND the highly competitive labor. & Eacute; common to hear that S & atilde; Paul & eacute; a city with trend & ecirc; TRENDS become p & oacute; s-modern, that is, be á a city of service & ccedil; the, brood & ccedil; & atilde, the, of innovation & ccedil; & atilde, the.

The problem & eacute; that governments do nothing to build the conditions & ccedil; & otilde; es for achieving this lies & ccedil; & atilde; the way SUSTAINABLE & aacute; vel. Instead, expected to arrive and this new model, Meanwhile, just run pol & iacute; optics that take care of the most serious problems. The result & eacute; a city that has a condition & ccedil; & atilde, the urban increasingly dif & iacute; cil. Without a strategy & eacute planning, urban magician long-term, the situation & ccedil; & atilde, the can make a profile that is even contrary á laughed as expected, changing the direction of change & ccedil; urban.

Returning to the case of S & HAND Paul, focus on serving & ccedil; the – at the expense of quest & otilde, industrial-productive es – It requires a set of character & iacute; sticas that are & atilde, the increasingly absent. In general the service & ccedil; the focus on human capital and, by a S & atilde side, Paul has a great ability to create & ccedil; & atilde; the highly skilled workers, No other & HAND D á the conditions & ccedil; & otilde; es for these same workers perform their service & ccedil; the. Time m & eacute; dio spent in urban displacements, as well as saturated MAKE-HANDS, the means of communicating MAKE-HANDS, the, causes the income of workers to fall significantly compared to other more structured urban centers.

Still & eacute; poss & iacute; vel also & eacute; m thinking about more dif & iacute factors; cult to measure, but T & ecirc; m also important impacts on productivity of a city that wants to focus on serving & ccedil; the. The emotional stress created by the condition & ccedil; & atilde, the urban (especially & tension HAND of the resulting high n & iacute; MOBILE & ecirc of viol; INSTANCE and pollutes MAKE-HANDS, the most varied types of, as the atmospheric & eacute; rich, in sound and visual) has impacts on the creative capacity of the HAND the labor.

The city of the future, able to equalize their conditions & ccedil; & otilde; es intr & iacute; nsecas (as the & acirc; s & oacute mica; cio-economic & FLYING; micas) with their voca & ccedil; & otilde; es, only reach & aacute; this condition & ccedil; & atilde, the achieving become competitive. For this, the first step & eacute; the execution & ccedil; & atilde, the two fundamental steps: (1) the understanding & atilde, the condition of your & ccedil; & atilde, the urban, able to indicate the conditions & ccedil; & otilde; s current and the main possibilities of changes & ccedil; & atilde, the; e (2) the construction & ccedil; & atilde; the condition of & ccedil; & otilde; s necessary á holiday & aggravate; & conception ccedil; & HAND the long-term planning that is able to overcome l & oacute; pure & pol gene iacute; Party-optical á ria.

With these two steps completed, the cities have & atilde, the the conditions & ccedil; & otilde; s m & iacute; Nimas to establish & ccedil; & otilde, concrete & es aimed worse; territorial competitiveness and, in & uacute; last & inst acirc; INSTANCE, & Worse; ability to innovate & ccedil; & atilde, the.

originally published in: World review InNova – May 2008

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