Knowledge Makes Cities: Education and Knowledge in Recent Urban Development. The Case of Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract

Education is one of the central assets for employment in the knowledge economy. It is widely assumed that increasing knowledge—going hand in hand with the rise of the creative class—has produced more opportunities for employment, with white-collar work and a less class-divided urban population. Our research, however, shows that the granting of educational certificates and the access to higher levels of education by no means follow meritocratic rules. By using the case study of Heidelberg, Germany, a well-known, long-established university town, this chapter delineates the emergence of new social inequalities related to education in cities and how current creative city-policies may influence these. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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