For most European planners, urbanists and professionals dealing with local development, the process of learning is strongly connected with the notion of region - learning regions, regional policy, clusters, innovations. For McFarlane learning is the gate to postmodern city. Postmodern or rather poststructural attitude is manifested in another notion used by the author - assemblage. As he explains in the Introduction 'it connotes the processual, generative and practice-based nature of urban learning, as well as its unequal, contested and potentially transformative character' (p. 1). Thus the key concept of the book is 'urban learning assemblage' which is developed by conceptualization of learning and its translocal character.
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