PhD Candidate Publishes Chapter in Book on Urban and City Competitiveness

Evren Tok, PhD candidate, publishes chapter in new book on “City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications,” edited by M. Bulu (2012, IGI Global Publishing).

His chapter, “Competitiveness and Creative Cities: Technologies of Neoliberal Urbanization in Perspective,” examines the role of technologies of neoliberal urbanization in reproducing new urban spaces that are oriented towards securing a competitive edge. He explores questions about how urban technologies influence the parameters of the reproduction of city spaces and which social representations, actors and networks are involved the process.

For more details, check here for an interview with Evren on the OpenCity Projects website.