Hub cities in the knowledge economy : seaports, airports, brainports / / edited by Sven Conventz [and three others]
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Conventz Sven
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| Titolo: |
Hub cities in the knowledge economy : seaports, airports, brainports / / edited by Sven Conventz [and three others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Burlington : , : Ashgate Pub., , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.9/26 |
| Soggetto topico: | Knowledge management |
| Knowledge economy | |
| Information technology | |
| Cities and towns | |
| Regional economics | |
| Altri autori: | ConventzSven |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: knowledge hubs : infrastructure and the knowledge economy in city-regions / Ben Derudder, Sven Conventz, Alain Thierstein & Frank Witlox -- Knowledge flows and physical connectivity in the global economy : an exploration of the related geographies of producer services and air passenger markets / Ben Derudder, Elien Van De Vijver, Frank Witlox -- Knowledge hubs : poles of physical accessibility and non-physical connectivity / Michael Bentlage, Alain Thierstein, Stefan Lüthi -- Knowledge hubs in the polycentric German urban system : between concentration processes and conurbation dynamics / Anna Growe -- Hub-airports as cities of intersections : the redefined role of hub-airports within the knowledge economy context / Sven Conventz, Alain Thierstein -- European port cities : embodiments of interaction : knowledge and freight flow as catalysts of spatial development / Anne Wiese, Alain Thierstein -- Hub cities in the evolving internet / Edward J. Malecki -- Urban and regional analysis and the digital revolution : challenges and opportunities / Emmanouil Tranos, Peter Nijkamp -- Mediating the city : the role of planned media cities in geographies the creative industry activity / Oli Mould -- Agglomeration and knowledge in european regional growth / Teodora Dogaru, Frank van Oort, Dario Diodato, Mark Thissen -- Types of hub cities and their effects on urban creative economies / Zachary P. Neal -- Capital cities as knowledge hubs : the economic geography of homeland security contracting / Heike Mayer, Margaret Cowell. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing how infrastructural accessibility is related to changing patterns of business location of knowledge-intensive industries in city-regions. The chapters in this book specifically dwell on recent manifestations of, and developments in, the accessibility/knowledge-nexus, with a particular metageogra |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hub cities in the knowledge economy |
| ISBN: | 1-315-58726-2 |
| 1-317-12055-8 | |
| 1-317-12054-X | |
| 1-4094-4592-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789149503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Transport and Mobility