Urban High-Technology Zones

Shows how high-tech city clusters form and impact urban quality-of-life during economic development initiatives

Ahoura Zandiatashbar (Author)

9780323901666, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 27 July 2023

186 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

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.

1. The rise of high-tech economy and the changing economic development practices
2. The microgeography of high-tech zones
3. The sectoral typology of high-tech zones
4. Place and transportation infrastructure variation across high-tech zones
5. Housing value variation across high-tech zones
6. Planning and capacity analysis techniques for high-tech zones (i.e., innovation districts)
7. Conclusion
   how this book guides cities’ planning efforts for economic growth in the 21st century

Subject Areas: Transport: general interest [WG], Human geography [RGC], Urban communities [JFSG]