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Summary
Summary
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 metageographical focus on how this materializes in major city-regions. In the different chapters, this shifting relation is broached from different perspectives (seaports, airports, brainports), at different scales (ranging from global-scale analyses to case studies), and by adopting a variety of methodologies (straddling the wide variety of methodological approaches currently adopted in human geography research). Researchers contributing to this edited volume come from different scholarly backgrounds (sociology, human geography, regional planning), which allows for a varied treatise of this research topic.
Author Notes
Sven Conventz, Munich University of Technology, Germany, Ben Derudder, Ghent University, Belgium; Alain Thierstein, Munich University of Technology, Germany and Frank Witlox, Ghent University, Belgium.
Table of Contents
IntroductionBen Derudder and Sven Conventz and Alan Thierstein and Frank Witlox |
Part I Knowledge flows and physical connectivity in the global economy |
An exploration of the related geographies of producer services and air passenger marketsBen Derudder and Elien Van De Vijver and Frank Witlox |
Knowledge hubs: poles of physical accessibility and non-physical connectivityMichael Bentlage and Alain Thierstein and Stefan Lüthi |
Knowledge hubs in the polycentric German urban system: between concentration processes and conurbation dynamicsAna Growe |
Hub-airports as cities of intersections: the redefined role of hub-airports within the knowledge economy contextSven Conventz and Alain Thierstein |
European port cities: embodiments of interaction - knowledge and freight flow as catalysts of spatial developmentAnne Wiese and Alain Thierstein |
Part II Hub cities in the evolving internetEdward J. Malecki |
Urban and regional analysis and the digital revolution: challenges and opportunitiesEmmanouil Tranos and Peter Nijkamp |
Mediating the city: the role of planned media cities in the geographies of creative industry activityOli Mould |
Part III Agglomeration and knowledge in European regional growthTeodora Dogaru and Frank van Oort and Dario Diodato and Mark Thissen |
Types of hub cities and their effects on urban creative economiesZachary P. Neal |
Capital cities as knowledge hubs: the economic geography of homeland security contractingHeike Mayer and Margaret Cowell |
Index |