Redes de cidades e inovação social

Abstract

This article highlights the prevalent relationship in the field of urban policies and local cultural policies, polarized between network performance and capacity for innovation. The networks are scrutinized from the point of the view of iconiCity, a concept which allows contrasting linguistically the ideas of icon and city, and putting in evidence the competition between cities. The personified and essentialized dimensions of the city leading the urban spaces to gather dynamics designed and operated to feed concepts of development which assume the shape of networks.