These are the issues that Longworth and Osborne want to address in this book but most of the contributors have their gaze firmly fixed on more mundane questions. the urgency of re-designing urban government to take account of increasing diversity and inequality.the need to reduce carbon dependency whilst sustaining growth and innovation.the struggle to absorb, integrate and service waves of migrants from the rural interior – in the south – or from poorer countries – in the north.
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In a series of books, Longworth, Osborne and the other founders of the international Pascal network have pointed to the stark challenges facing cities on every continent: Learning cities and regions, however urgent they may be to their economic and social survival, are simply not presently at the forefront of local and regional authority priorities. regional management is simply not aware, neither of the nature of the challenge nor of the opportunities that exist, to move forward. Longworth and Osborne, tireless toilers for the concept of the learning city and region, pinpoint a vital truth that they, almost alone amongst the contributors to Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions are preoccupied with:
A common problem with books based on academic conferences is that the contributors, in their enthusiasm for their own specialist theme, sometimes seem indifferent to the big issues.
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