Hub cities in the knowledge economy : : seaports, airports, brainports / / edited by Sven Conventz [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Conventz, Sven.
• Place / Publishing House: Burlington : : Ashgate Pub.,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Transport and mobility series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

Table of Contents

• 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 Luthi
• 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.