Reconfiguring Europe: Expert knowledge, EU-projects, and the formation of ‘‘creative cities’’

Abstract

Understandings of the ‘‘decline’’ and ‘‘development’’ of urban systems will be considered as modernist concepts of ‘‘catching up’’ with recent meta-narratives – such as ‘‘creativity’’ and ‘‘knowledge-based’’ urban developments. They imply economic fields to target, which recently have been most visible by highlighting knowledgeand creativity-based urban approaches. Nowadays cities, especially European ones, compete among each other – not only factually in the fields of innovative talents and financial investments, but also in the field of production of relevant scientifically based knowledge of the city. The task of this article is to ask how cities are negotiated in European research projects these days. The leading question is what kind of methods are established in order to position cities by categorizing and labelling them as ‘‘declining’’ or ‘‘developing’’? The production of knowledge about cities is based on expert cultures and their scholarships, which is very often rooted in urban and regional knowledge cultures. It will be critically asked, how can the case structures of cities be regarded as a specific way to deal with the distinct locality within the context of posttraditional knowledge frames? How can a city articulate its

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