Print version: Hub cities in the knowledge economy : seaports, airports, brainports. Burlington : Ashgate Pub., [2014] xv, 268 pages Transport and mobility series ISBN 9781409445913
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.