City: identity and rankings

Authors

  • Elías Mas Serra Arquitecto, Director del Gabinete de Arquitectura del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao (1991-2005)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612009000300003

Keywords:

urban culture, territorial development

Abstract

For cities, and forms of constructing them through history, diverse adjectives, some more and some less justifi ed, have been provided. Nowadays, much is made of the city of knowledge and of innovation in the evolution of urban forms. It is recognised that many of these expressions remain metaphorical, but it is important to establish the added value generated by a conceptualization of this kind in the fi eld of economic management and the generation of capital gains. Also important is the recognition that the city is something independent and that an improved valuation of a city, in a broad sense, is based on the values provided by its identity; as such, supposed knowledge or innovation should not be overly managed through the media, via globalization, or through forgetting its constituted and constructed historical reality.

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Published

2009-12-02

How to Cite

Mas Serra, E. (2009). City: identity and rankings. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 35(106). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612009000300003