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Taylor & Francis Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy Seaports Airports Brainports 2019 Edition by Sven Conventz, Ben Derudder, Alain Thierstein, Frank Witlox
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. Table of contents :- Contents: Introduction, Ben Derudder, Sven Conventz, 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 markets, Ben Derudder, Elien Van De Vijver and Frank Witlox; Knowledge hubs: poles of physical accessibility and non-physical connectivity, Michael Bentlage, Alain Thierstein and Stefan LA thi; Knowledge hubs in the polycentric German urban system: between concentration processes and conurbation dynamics, Ana Growe; Hub-airports as cities of intersections: the redefined role of hub-airports within the knowledge economy context, Sven Conventz and Alain Thierstein; European port cities: embodiments of interaction - knowledge and freight flow as catalysts of spatial development, Anne Wiese and Alain Thierstein. Part II: Hub cities in the evolving internet, Edward J. Malecki; Urban and regional analysis and the digital revolution: challenges and opportunities, Emmanouil Tranos and Peter Nijkamp; Mediating the city: the role of planned media cities in the geographies of creative industry activity, Oli Mould. Part III: Agglomeration and knowledge in European regional growth, Teodora Dogaru, Frank van Oort, Dario Diodato and 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 and Margaret Cowell; Index.