This unique book reveals the procedural aspects of knowledge-based urban planning, development and assessment. Concentrating on major knowledge city building processes, and providing state-of-the-art experiences and perspectives, this important compendium explores innovative models, approaches and lessons learned from a number of key case studies across the world. Many cities worldwide, in order to brand themselves as knowledge cities, have undergone major transformations in the 21st century. This book provides a thorough understanding of these transformations and the key issues in building prosperous knowledge cities by focusing particularly on the policy making, planning process and performance assessment aspects. The contributors reveal theoretical and conceptual foundations of knowledge cities and their development approach of knowledge-based urban development. They present best-practice examples from a number of key case studies across the globe. This important book provides readers with a thorough understanding of the key issues in planning and developing prosperous knowledge cities of the knowledge economy era, which will prove invaluable to national, state/regional and city governments' planning and development departments. Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students of regional and urban studies will also find this path-breaking book an intriguing read. Contributors: K.V. Andersen, B.T. Asheim, B. Bajracharya, F.J. Carrillo, S. Cavazos, G. Cevikayak, A. Dornan, K. Ergazakis, A.C. Fachinelli, A.M. Fernandez-Maldonado, R.E. Flores, P. Franz, B.C. Garcia, C. Garner, O. Gonzalez, G. Hearn, C. Heidemann, R. Hu, J.K. Imukuka, K. Johnson, K.R. Kunzmann, S. Laursen, A. Leal, R. Lisowski, M. Lorenzen, J. Macke, A. Martinez, K. Martinus, K. Metaxiotis, C. Meyer, K. O'Connor, J.A. Powell, G. Searle, L. Too, J. van Wezemael, K. Velibeyoglu, K. Wermker, S. Wesselmann, R. Wilhelmy, T. Yigitcanlar
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This important book provides readers with a thorough understanding of the key issues in planning and developing prosperous knowledge cities of the knowledge economy era, which will prove invaluable to national, state/regional and city governments’ planning and development departments.
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Contents:
Foreword
Competing: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become Prosperous
Peter Franz
Preface
Introducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge Cities
Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier Carrillo
PART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy
Björn T. Asheim
2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of Denmark
Mark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen
3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology Precincts
Gülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu
4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global?
Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor
5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban Space
Kirsten Martinus
6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in Germany
Stefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski
7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City Transformation
Octavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América Martínez
PART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant Ecosystem
Cathy Garner and Anne Dornan
9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge Cities
Kostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis
10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of Eindhoven
Ana María Fernández-Maldonado
11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney
Richard Hu
12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation
Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke
13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small Business
Joan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn
14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL Universities
James A. Powell
15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge Region
Caren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus Wermker
PART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge Economy
Kevin Johnson
17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and Perspectives
Francisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores
18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and Boston
Tan Yigitcanlar
19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi Exercise
Alicia Leal and Blanca C. Garcia
Afterword
Concluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
Joris van Wezemael
Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857936035
Publisert
2012-01-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
416