Urban High-Technology Zones

Urban High-Technology Zones provides planning insights for the growing high-tech economy, examining the built environment, policy factors, quality-of-life impacts, and economic geography. It offers quantitative measures of social, environmental, and economic impacts through advanced geospatial data-driven techniques and evidence-based insights, making it a valuable resource for academic research and policy guidance.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2023
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Urban High-Technology Zones provide invaluable planning insights into our rapidly advancing high-tech economy and society, delving into the crucial role of the built environment, the policy factors that shape their formation and growth, the positive and negative impacts of high-tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and the intricate dynamics of economic geography. By employing advanced geospatial data-driven techniques and drawing upon evidence-based insights, the book offers quantitative measurements of the social, environmental, and economic impacts of high-tech clusters. While the findings are primarily based on cities in the United States, the book's spatial analyses, methodology, research conclusions, and literature reviews are broadly applicable to cities across the globe. Users will discover a wealth of valuable insights and guidance on the pivotal role of high-tech clusters in achieving cities' economic growth and social equity objectives, making it an essential resource for academic research and policy guidance.

Urban High-Technology Zones offer 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 clusters' 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.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323901666