TY - BOOK
T1 - Hub cities in the knowledge economy
T2 - Seaports, airports, brainports
AU - Conventz, Sven
AU - Derudder, Ben
AU - Thierstein, Alain
AU - Witlox, Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Sven Conventz, Ben Derudder, Alain Thierstein, Frank Witlox and the contributors 2014.
PY - 2016/5/13
Y1 - 2016/5/13
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068313094&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315587264
DO - 10.4324/9781315587264
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85068313094
SN - 9781409445913
BT - Hub cities in the knowledge economy
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -