Curriculum Vita

Richard E. V. Knight

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Curriculum Vita: Part I European Project 1989-1998

Amsterdam Chair Center for Metropolitan Studies (CGO), Univ. of Amsterdam, 1989
Visiting Professor Economic Geography Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1990-1992
Summer University, DAEST, University of Venice, 1993, 1994
European Academy of the Urban Environment, Moscow, Nov. 1995
Sociology Faculty, University of Milano, Winter 1997
Scientific Advisor EC/DG XII/FAST-MONITOR, Future of European Cities project 1991-1993
European Academy for the Urban Environment, Berlin, 1992-1994
Visiting Scholar CNRS/PIR-Ville, (National Research Council, France) Paris and Lyon, Sept.-Nov. 1993
EC, DG XII, Human Capital and Mobility programme, Genoa, Apr.-Dec. 1994
Facoltà di Architettura, Università di Genova, 1994 to date
Counsellor, City Development, City of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, 1989-91
City of Delft, 1991 and 1996
City of Vienna, 1994
City of Genova, 1995-1997
Amsterdam: Knowledge City Project 1989-1992
Programma Doctoraal, Economische Geografie Voorjaar, Spring 1989

Workshops and Seminars:

"Envisioning the City as a Knowledge Center", inter-departmental workshops for City of Amsterdam,
Provinciale Planologische Dienst van Noord-Holland, Haarlem, March, 1989, and
Institute of Planning and Demography, University of Amsterdam, Seminar, April, 1989;
"Knowledge-based development, Inst. v. Ruimtelijke Organisatie, TNO, Delft, Seminar for staff, April 1989;
Amsterdam Planners Assoc., Keynote Speaker, Annual meeting, April 28, 1989;
"Regional Knowledge Resources" Amsterdam Forum, May 1989;
"European Cities and the Single Market" Civic associations in Amsterdam, Hague and Rotterdam, 1989-1991.
Public Lectures Agnietenkapel, Amsterdam:
"The Advanced Industrial Metropolis: A New Type of World City" March, 1989;
"Building the Knowledge-based City in a Global Society" April 25, 1989.

Studies and Reports:

Amsterdam Knowledge City, Pre-study prepared for the City of Amsterdam, May, 1990
Delft Kennisstad, Prototype study of Knowledge-based development, City of Delft, Oct. 1990

Colloquiums and Conferences:

"Proposal for Case Studies on Knowledge-based Development" R.O.M.E. Network,
Amsterdam, April 1-4, 1990; Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 3 - 8 May, 1990, Berlin, May, 1990;
Council of Europe, SCLRAE, European Towns: Strategies & Programmes, Strasbourg, June 1990;
"Delft Knowledge Centre?", Transinovia Conf.: Univ.-Industry Interface. Grenoble, November 1990;
"Cities as Knowledge Centers" EC/RACE Conf. on Intelligent Cities, Brussels, 13 December 1990;
Amsterdam: Knowledge City Project 1989-1992 (Continued)

Papers presented:

"Knowledge-based Development, the Role of Cities, Knowledge Resources and Tele-power Assets."
Planning Administration (JAPA) No 28, Special Issue, City Development in the Information Age, 1991;
"Knowledge-based Development: An Overview." Amsterdam Kenniscentrum Symposium on
Amsterdam's potential as a centre for bio-technologies, Amsterdam KVK, 17 September 1991;
"Towards a New Strategy for City Development." European Workshop on The Improvement
of the Built Environment and Social Integration in Cities, Berlin, October 1991;
"European Urban Hierarchy" Presented at ERASMUS Intensive Program: Lille-Roubaix - Tourcoing,
Université Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 27 March 1992;
"The Role of Cities in the Concept of Sustainable Development", Economics Univ. Vienna, 5 May 1992;
"European Prospective: Sustainable Cities In A Global Society" Die Metropolen in der Mitte Europas,
European Academy for the Urban Environment, Berlin, 1-3 June, 1992;
"Métropolitisation and territoires: cities as actors" Université d'Été de l'Observatoire, International de
Prospective Régionale, Arc-et-Senans, Juillet 1992;
"Global and Local Cities" Inter-University Symposium, Istituto Universitario de Architettura
di Venezia Dipartimento de Analisi Economica e Sociale del Territori, Venezia, Sept., 1992;
The Future of European Cities: The Role of Science & Technology
Research conducted for the European Community under contract with DG XII-FAST-MONITOR -
Prospective Dossier No. 4. and for the The Réseau Observatoire Métropolitan European, R.O.M.E,
(a network of 9 European Cities, now the European Urban Observatory, Barcelona RECITE - DG XVI).

Publications: (Available directly from EU, DG12)

The Future of European Cities: The Role of Science and Technology. FAST/MONITOR, DG12, EU:
Part I, Synthesis, by Roy Drewett, Richard Knight and Uwe Schubert, May, 1992,
Part IV, Cities as Loci of Knowledge-based Development, Richard V. Knight, August 28, 1992:
Case Studies of Knowledge-based development: (available directly from cities)
Amsterdam Amsterdam Knowledge City: Knowledge-based Development with Recommendations
and Actions, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Amsterdam-Haarlem, May 1991.
Delft Kennisstad: Concept, September 1990 and Economische Beleidsvisie. Zicht Op Delft,
Gemeente Delft, Dienst Beheer & Milieu, Afdeling Economische Zaken, Oktober, 1991.
Genoa Prospective Study: Il Caso Genova, Rapporto Finale, Genova Ricerche, ILRES, Oct. 1991.
Lyon La Ville, Pole de Production et de Diffusion des Connaissances: L' exemple de la ville
de Lyon, enquéte dirigée par Richard Knight Commerce & Industry, Lyon, May 1991.
Milan Report on Some Aspects of the Perception and the Evaluation of the Structure of
Knowledge in Milano Based on Analysis of Interviews, I.R.e.R., Milano, November 1991

Workshops and Symposiums:

Delft, Kennisstad Symposium, City of Delft, October 1990.
Lyon, 'Culture and the City', Chamber of Commerce, Lyon, 6 February 1991.
Milan, Case-study findings, IReR, Milan, 11 June 1991.
Lyon, Colloquium for Six knowledge case study cities, 13-15 June 1991.
Genoa, Strategic Diagnostic, Genova Ricerche, 23 June 1991.
Brussels, EC, Interagency (5 DGs) Symposium, 1 July 1991.
Amsterdam, 'Amsterdam Kenniscentrum", KVK, 17 September 1991.
Budapest, Inter-agency colloquium, Knowledge-based development, November 1991.
Malaga, Strategic planning, IDR, University of Seville, May 1992.
Sheffield, Knowledge-based development, 3 July 1992.
Paris, Société et Technologies: Contract de Dévelop. Min. Recherche et l'Espace, December 1992.
Vienna, "Refounding the City", workshop on knowledge-based development for City of Vienna, April 21 1993.

Professional practice:

Working with cities on ways to facilitate knowledge-based development. The approach focuses on enhancing knowledge cultures and building the knowledge infrastructure. The methodology was elaborated during a study of Vienna's knowledge base, undertaken for the City of Vienna in 1994 and later implemented in Genova, Italy.

The approach begins by identifying principle types of knowledge cultures present in the city and its region and mapping principle knowledge resources and their core competencies. Decision-makers from each of knowledge culture are then identified, interviewed and brought together into a dialogue about the changing nature of city development. Interviews are prepared for publication and themes for structuring the dialogue are drawn from a content analysis of the interviews. Themes are developed by the study participants in small focus groups, key issues and concerns are introduced by the participants during a series of dialogue seminars. Themes address the changing nature of wealth creation, changes the nature and place of work, education and leisure, the loss of certain types of knowledge, e.g., in crafts, local ecology and culture, and attributes of the environment which are most critical to future development.

The dialogue seminars are designed to serve as a mechanism for improving communications between different sectors of the city and for articulating new types of collective needs and intentions such as strengthening knowledge resources, transforming knowledge into local development, increasing synergies, requalifying areas of the city, opening the city to international influences, positioning the city in the global society and creating conditions conducive to cultural development in an increasingly learning-based and expressive society.

Principle Projects Delft 1990, Amsterdam 1991, Vienna Knowledge-Base Study 1994.
Genova Knowledge-based Development, dialogue seminars 1995 - 1997.
UNESCO-ROSTE, programme concerning science policies for cities.
Other Scientific and Professional Activities
Member, President Jacques Delors expert group on cities, established by, EU-Cellule Prospective, since 1993.
Visiting Professor, Seminar: Cultural Development of Cities, Faculty of Sociology, University of Milan, 1997.
Presenter, "Sulla Questione Area Metropolitana" Seminario, Provincia di Milano, December 1996.
Organizer, Dialogue Seminar on transportation and mobility City and Region of Genova, June 1996.
Counsellor, City of Delft on knowledge-based development; chair, seminar on city development, March 1996.
Faculty, Urban Management Training Program, municipal officials, city architects from CIS, Moscow, Oct.'95.
Presenter, Genoa Forum of UNESCO on Science and Society, October 1995.
Organizer, Dialogue Seminar on Enhancing Knowledge Cultures, Genova October 1995.
Member of design Team, Requalifying Obsolete IndustrialDistricts, Barcelona and Torino, EAUE 1994.
Presenter, UNESCO/EU Sym. "From Social Exclusion to Social Cohesion" Social Sumit, Copenhagen Mar'95.
Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Research on Cities, PIR-Villes/CNRS Paris, Lyon, Lille and Toulouse, 1993.
Presenter, The New Europe and the Response of Regions TransDanubian Res. Inst., Pécs, Hungry, Nov. 1993.
Member, Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning & Development, SCUPAD, since 1992.
Member, Conseil Scientifique, Route des Hautes Technologies, Sophi-Antipolis, since 1991.
Chair, Symposium: Science Parks for Bio-tech Development, European Biotech Congress, Florence, June'93.
Lecturer, member Scientific Comm., Summer School Applied Social Sciences, Un. Inst. of Arch. Venice, '93.
Advisor, Knowledge Infrastructure Roundtable, Amsterdam, 1991-1992.
Scientific chair, Lyon Colloquium on Knowledge-based Development, June 1991.
Conference chair, Knowledge-based Development: A New Paradigm for Cities, Vienna, October 1991.

Papers and Presentations:

Keynote Speaker, Metropolis 99 Congress, Barcelona, March 1999
Keynote speaker, Copenhagen Cultural Capital Conf. on Future of the City, Fremtidsorientering, Nov. 1996.
Presenter, "Probing the urban future: some questions", World Futures Society Congress, Wash. DC. July 1996.
Knowledge-based development Workshop at World Future Society Congress, Atlanta July 1995.
"Knowledge-based Development: Policy and Planning Implications for Cities" Urban Studies Vol.32/ 2. 1995.
"Science and Power: the Role of Cities", UNESCO Symposium: Science and Power, Genoa Italy, June 1995.
Enhancing Vienna's Knowledge Cultures, Progress Report, City of Vienna, 1994
Greening Strategies for Urban Developent, European Academy for the Urban Environment, Berlin 1994.
"Integrating Local and Global Knowledge." Sixiemes Entretiens Jacques Cartier, Lyon, 5-11, Déc. 1993.
Good wine doesn’t travel well", in Wohnen und Arbeiten im Global Village, Falter Verlag, TU-Wien 1994.
Information Technology for the Town Planner, European Academy for the Urban Environment, Berlin 1993.
"Sustainable Development - Sustainable Cities" International Social Sciences Journal, UNESCO, Feb.'93.
"Science and decision-making: a basis for sustainable urban development?" Univ. d'Été de l'Environment, Sept.'93.
"Challenges for Technopolis" Route des Hautes Technologies Association, Sophi Antipolis, June 1993.

Curriculum Vita: Part II (Prior to 1989 and European Project)

PERSONAL
Born 1935, Essex, England, Two children, divorced

EDUCATION
Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, Economics, 1972.
BS., Columbia University, Economics, 1965.
Institute for Economic and Social Development of Underdeveloped Countries, University of Paris, 1959-60.
Civil Engineering, Tufts University, 1954-57.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
1982-1989 Professor of Urban Affairs and consultant, city development, urban transport, planning and policy.
Clients: US Departments of Labor, Housing & Urban Development, and Transportation,
National Academy of Sciences, National Capital Planning Comm.
1986-1988 Associate Professor Administration & Management, Antioch College, Ohio.
Adjunct Professor, College of Adult & Experimental Learning, Antioch University, Ohio.
1985-1986 Visiting Professor, Economics Department, Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio.
1981-1982 Visiting Professor, School of Urban and Regional Studies, University of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1976-1981 Director, Regional Development Program, and Associate Professor, Dept. of Urban Studies,
College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland.
1972-1975 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND (Pre-doctoral)
1965-1977 Research Associate, Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia University.
1969-1974 Part-time Lecturer in Urban Economics: Columbia University, NYU and CUNY.
1958-1965 Economic Analyst: US Economics and Econometrics Institute, New York.
Media & Survey Research Analyst, WR. Simmons Co., and AC. Nielsen Company, New York.
1956-1958 Civil Engineer: Morrison Knudson Corp., and George Fuller Co., Boston.
Surveyor and estimator, Howard M. Turner Consultants, Boston.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Refounding Cities, Enhancing Knowledge Cultures, Residential Strategies for Developing Livable Cities.
Civic Process and Dialogue seminars as a mechanism for collective learning and articulating collective intentions.
The Nature and Assessment of Knowledge Resources, Transforming Knowledge into Local Development.
Economics of Knowledge, Knowledge-based Development and Economic and Cultural Base Studies.
City and Regional Development, Strategic Planning, National Urban Policy, Internationalization of Cities.
Environmental Impact Studies, Sustainable Development, Aesthetics and Urban Design and Future Studies.
Quality of Life, Urban Form, Compact and Pedestrian Oriented Cities, Morphology and Urban Form.
Accessibility, Urban Public Transportation (light rail), Upgrading Infrastructures and Amenities.
The Effects of Competition Policy, Mergers, and Acquisitions on City and Regional Development.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Cities in a Global Society, with Gary Gappert, Vol. 35, Urban Affairs Annual Review: Sage, 1989.
Cities in the 21st Century, co-editor with Gary Gappert, Vol. 23, UAAR, Sage Publications, 1982.
Suburbanization and the City, with Thomas M. Stanback Jr., Montclair, NJ: Allenheld, Osmun, 1976.
Employment Expansion and Metropolitan Trade, New York: Praeger Publications, 1973.
The Metropolitan Economy: The Process of Employment Expansion, with Thomas M. Stanback, Jr.,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, MONOGRAPHS
"Governance of the Post-Industrial Metropolis and the Evolution of the Global City" in Fourth International Conference on Project Milano, Institute Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia, Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli Libri, 1987.
"Cities and the Challenge of the Global Economy" in The Future of Winter Cities, Gary Gappert (ed.), Vol. 31, Urban Affairs Annual Review, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987.
"The Advanced Industrial City: A New Type of World City?" Proceedings, Congress on Future of the Metropolis, 1984, Berlin: Technical University, in The Future of the Metropolis, HJ Ewers,(Eds.) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986.
"Washington, 2050: A Global City?" National District Planning Commission, December 10, 1985.
"Cities and the Challenge of the Global Economy" with Gary Gappert in Urban Economic Development, R. Bingham and J. Blair (eds.), Vol. 25, Urban Affairs Annual Review, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1984.
"Changes in the Economic Base of Urban Areas: Implications for Urban Public Transport" in Future Directions of Urban Public Transportation, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1984.
"City Development in an Industrial Region: Detroit, A Case Study" Public Lecture, The Detroit Roundtable, in
Detroit Metropolitan City-Suburban Relations, Henry Ford College, Dearborn, MI, Occasional Paper #3, 1979.
"The Growth Pole" in New York Is Very Much Alive, Eli Ginzberg (ed.), NYC: McGraw Hill, 1973.

FUNDED RESEARCH, WORKING PAPERS, COMMITTEE REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"Cities in a Global Society" Working Group on Managing the Metropolis, International Federation of Housing and Planning,
Lille, France, 2-4 September 1987.
Evaluation of Two Rail Transit Systems in Cleveland, Ohio, (Three Parts), U.S. Department of Transportation,
Urban Mass Transportation Administration, September 1985.
"Defining the Global City" World Future Society, NYC, July 1985.
"Liveable Cities: Wishful Thinking or Sound Economics?" 12th Annual Back to the City Conf., Cleveland, June 1985.
"Sun Belt Cities Challenge the Rust Belt" TV. Series on Dallas and Atlanta, Channel Eight, Cleveland, Spring 1980.
Cleveland's Default, a Mac Neil - Lehrer special Public Broadcasting System TV program, 1978.
Role of Corporate Headquarters and Related Auxiliary Activities on the Development of the Cleveland Region,
An analysis of 41 Fortune 1000 corporations based in Cleveland funded by The Cleveland Foundation, 1974-1976.
"Transition of Manufacturing Centers into Knowledge Centers," Ohio Planners Association, Dayton, Ohio, May 1985.
Changes in the Economic Base of Urban Areas: Implications for Urban Public Transportation Working paper for a retreat
on Future of Transit, National Academy of Science. Woods Hole, August 1983.
Rethinking Urban Policy: Urban Development in an Advanced Economy Committee on National Urban Policy, National Research Council, Washington, DC.: National Academy Press, 1983. (Workshops: LA, Woods Hole, 1982.)
"The Urban Mission in the 21st Century" ASCU Workshop, The University of Akron, March 1983.
"Post-Industrial or Advanced Industrial Society: Which Way for Urban America?" World Future Society, DC July '82.
"Industrial Transition in the Chicago Region" Workshop to organize the Calumet Conference, Gary, Indiana, April '82.
"Defining the Advanced Industrial City" American Economic Assn., Panel on Reindustrialization, NYC Dec'82.
The Region's Economy: Transition to What? 1981, and Cleveland Economy in Transition: Implications for the Future,
Cleveland: July 1977, Regional Development Program, Cleveland State University.
"The Role of Information in Changing the Perspective of the Industrial City" IAAPP, Washington. DC., July 1979.
"Regional Economic Impact of Forty Cultural Institutions" University Circle Inc., Cleveland, 1977.
"The Job Market for Welfare Recipients" Welfare-to-Work, Cleveland: Federation for Community Planning, March'75.
Jamaica Bay-Kennedy Airport: A Multi-Disciplinary Environmental Impact Study. (Study Participant) Washington. DC.:
National Academy of Sciences and of Engineering, 1970-1971.
"Comprehensive Development Plan", East End Neighborhood House, Cleveland, 1978-1980.
"Industrial Metropolis Needs New Vision", Mid-American Outlook, Cleveland, Summer, 1978.

RESEARCH PAPERS, COMMITTEE REPORTS, PRESENTATIONS: (Continued.)
Invited Testimony and Formal Statement, "Structural changes in the economy of advanced industrial metropolis."
White House Conference National Growth & Economic Development February 1978.
"On Evaluating the Economic Impact of Proposed Regional Jetport" The Atlantic Economic Assn, DC., 1977.
Playhouse Square Redevelopment Plan Graduate Student Workshop, Cleveland, 1977.
"Detroit Shoreway Neighborhoods Development Program" Detroit Shoreway Development Corp., Cleveland, 1977.
"Multi-National Corporations and Metropolitan Linkages with Global Economy" Atlantic Economic Society, 1976.
"Industrial Transition and Economic Opportunity in Manufacturing Metropolitan Regions" National Council of Urban Economic Development, DC., Annual Meeting, November 1975.
Transportation, Institutions and Other Factors Influencing Suburbanization working paper, CWRU, 1975.
Alternative Strategies for the Economic Development of New York Rockerfeller Brothers Fund, Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia Univ., NYC, Spring 1975.
"The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Geographical Concentration of Corporate Headquarters" Working paper, Economics Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1975.
"Regional Development Perspective for Welfare Policy" Cuyahoga County Commissioners, 1975.
"Economic Transition and Opportunity: Corporate Headquarters and the Future of Cleveland" Research Report with Frank Maris, The Greater Cleveland Growth Association, 1973.

TEACHING: (Graduate and Undergraduate courses)
Urban Economics Principles of Economics
Institutional Economics Economics of Social Welfare
Money and Banking Financial Investments
Entrepreneurship Marketing
Program Development and Evaluation Urban Social Infrastructure
Metropolitan Area Analysis Urban Design Workshop
Quality of Life Concept Environmental Impact Studies
Knowledge City Knowledge-based Development

PUBLIC SERVICE:
Chairperson, Alternatives Analysis Citizens Task Group with eighty members for 3 years (Euclid Corridor Study).
Member, Community Involvement Committee, Northeast Ohio Areawide Co-ordinating Agency.
Member, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Overall Development Planing Committee.
Member, Financial Institutions Task Force, Cuyahoga Plan.
Member, Welfare Reform Committee, Federation Community Planning.
Member, Financial & Legal Review Team, Lake Erie Regional Jetport.
Member and co-chair, Research and Evaluation Committee, Cleveland Private Industry Council.
Trustee, Fairfax Foundation (Local Development Corporation).
Trustee and Chair of Planning Committee, East End Neighborhood House.
Chairperson, Planning Committee, Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association.
Member, Advisor Committee, Friends of the Parks, Cleveland.
Neighborhood Workshop Program, Cleveland State University.
Member, Leadership Cleveland, three years.
Clinical Scholars Program, School of Medicine, CWRU, Cleveland.
Member, State of Ohio Scanning Network.
Leadership Ohio, member, class of 1999