Hub cities in the knowledge economy : seaports, airports, brainports / by Sven Conventz, Ben Derudder, Alain Thierstein and Frank Witlox.

Table of Contents
Contents:
Introduction,
Ben Derudder, Sven Conventz, Alan Thierstein and Frank Witlox;

Part I:
1 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;

2 Knowledge hubs: poles of physical accessibility and
non-physical connectivity,
Michael Bentlage, Alain Thierstein and Stefan Lüthi;

3 Knowledge hubs in the polycentric German urban system:
between concentration processes and conurbation dynamics,
Ana Growe;

4 Hub-airports as cities of intersections:
the redefined role of hub-airports within the knowledge economy context,
Sven Conventz and Alain Thierstein;

5 European port cities: embodiments of interaction -
knowledge and freight flow as catalysts of spatial development
Anne Wiese and Alain Thierstein.


Part II:
6 Hub cities in the evolving internet,
Edward J. Malecki;

7 Urban and regional analysis and the digital revolution:
challenges and opportunities,
Emmanouil Tranos and Peter Nijkamp;

8 Mediating the city: the role of planned media cities in the geographies of creative industry activity,
Oli Mould.

Part III:
9 Agglomeration and knowledge in European regional growth,
Teodora Dogaru, Frank van Oort, Dario Diodato and Mark Thissen
;
10 Types of hub cities and their effects on urban creative economies,
Zachary P. Neal;
11 Capital cities as knowledge hubs: the economic geography of homeland security contracting
Heike Mayer and Margaret Cowell; Index.

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