Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography. Using a combination of advanced geospatial data-driven techniques with evidence-based insights, the book provides quantitative measures on high tech cluster's social, environmental and economic impacts. While findings are from drawn cities in the US, the book's spatial analyses, methodology, research conclusions and literature reviews are generalizable to cities around the world. Users will find numerous insights and guidance on the role high-tech clusters play in how cities reach their economic growth and social equity goals, making it a useful resource for academic research and policy guidance. Draws on disaggregated firm-level data to provide strong analytical granularity on economic development initiatives Includes numerous and diverse case studies focusing economic externalities, policy implementation and institutional barriers Examines such issues as housing affordability and gentrification, smart cities and urban infrastructures INDICE: 1. Introduction: The Rise of High-Tech Economy, and the Changing Paradigm on the Current Place-Making and Economic Development Practices 2. The Micro-geography of High-tech Zones 3. Sectoral Typology of High-tech Zones 4. Place and Productivity across High-tech Zones 5. State of Affordability in High-Tech Zones 6. Step-By-Step Guideline/Protocol For Tech Cluster Capacity Analysis 7. Conclusion: Cities and Economic Growth in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978-0-323-90166-6
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2023
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés