Knowledge-based urban development planning and applications in the information era /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Yigitcanlar, Tan., Velibeyoglu, Koray., Baum, Scott.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: City planning > Research.; Urbanization > Research.; Urban policy > Research.; City knowledge; Economic development; ICT applications; Implications of ICT; Information systems perspective; Knowledge cities; Knowledge economy and society; Knowledge workers and quality of life; Knowledge-based production; Knowledge-based urban development; Land use regulation; Management perspective; Organization perspective; Social and human capital; Tacit and codified knowledge; Urban ICT policy; Urban innovation; Urban resource innovation; Urban services and infrastructure; Urbanization
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This book covers theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge cities to underline the growing importance of KBUD all around the world, providing research on the decisive lineaments of urban development for knowledge-based production (drawing attention to new planning processes to...

Table of Contents:

• Knowledge Creation in Urban and Knowledge Environment / Joris E. Van Wezemael
• Academic Knowledge and Urban Development / Beth Perry
• Creative Industries and the Urban Hierarchy / Scott Baum, Tan Yigitcanlar, Kevin O'Connor
• Knowledge economy in transition / Caroline Wong
• The alert model / Mark I. Wilson, Kenneth E. Corey
• From university town to knowledge city / Peter Franz
• Queensland's Smart State initiative / Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu
• 22@bcn Plan / Anna Clua, Abel Albet
• Towards ubiquitous city / Sang Ho Lee, Jung Hoon Han, Yoon Taik Leem, Tan Yigitcanlar
• Biotechnology and knowledge-based urban development in DNA Valley / Edmund J. Zolnik
• Beyond planning / Glen Searle, Bill Pritchard
• Urban competitiveness in the knowledge economy / Willem van Winden, Luis Carvalho
• A knowledge-based urban paradox / Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, Arie Romein
• Emerging Middle Eastern knowledge cities / Ali A. Alraouf
• Creation of an Australian knowledge town / Phillip Daffara
• Emerging role of ICT in the development of knowledge-based master planned communities / Bhishna Bajracharya, Janelle Allison.