CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the
Information Era
Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu and Scott Baum
Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Australia
Proposal Submission Deadline: 30 June 2006 Inquiries and Submissions
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Introduction
The book 'Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and
Applications in the Information Era' will cover the theoretical,
thematic and country specific issues of knowledge cities to underline
the growing importance of knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) all
around the world.
In the globalising world, knowledge and information (and the social and
technological settings for their production and communication) are now
seen as keys to economic prosperity. The economy of a knowledge city
creates (high) value-added products using research, technology, and
brainpower. The social benefit of KBUD, however, extends beyond
aggregate economic growth. On the one hand, it holds out the
possibility of a particularly resilient form of urban development
secured in a network of connections anchored at local, national, and
global coordinates. On the other hand, quality of life, defined not
only by the level of public service (e.g. health and education) but
also by the conservation and development of the cultural, aesthetic and
ecological values that give cities their character and attract (or
repel) the creative class, is a prerequisite for successful knowledge
based development. The promise of KBUD is, therefore, a secure economy
in a human setting: in short, sustainable development.
In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily shaped by
global market forces rather than urban planning. Normative urban and
regional planning, inherited from the twentieth century, has proved
unable to respond to the rapid changes and challenges of the knowledge
economy. As the role of knowledge in wealth creation becomes a critical
issue in cities, urban administrations and planners need to discover
new approaches to harness the considerable opportunities of abstract
production for a global order.
The Overall Objective of the Book
KBUD is a largely uncharted territory of research. While the idea of
the knowledge city is by no means unknown, there has been little
substantive research into planning for knowledge-based production. As
the finite opportunities of globalised production are taken up on an
ever-widening scale elsewhere, there is an urgent need for
comprehensive research into the present incidence and future potential
of KBUD. In this context, the twin objectives of the book are to
highlight the decisive lineaments of urban development for knowledge
based production and to draw attention to new planning processes to
foster such development. It will also provide selected world-wide best
practice and case studies from knowledge city in practice for
practitioners in the field of urban development.
The detailed aims of this book project are:
* Define key conceptual and empirical issues of urban development
and planning in cities of the twenty-first century.
* Discuss the role of knowledge and its spatial form in urban
development.
* Identify the preconditions for innovative use of urban resources
for cities.
* Review existing urban information and communication (ICT) policy
and the implications of ICT use for conventional land use regulation.
* Sketch the impacts of ICTs upon localised, physical space to
provide new perspectives for planners and managers.
* Pin point new methods to evaluate the potential of urban planning
to delivery knowledge-based development.
* Determine and share KBUD experiences of the successful knowledge
cities.
The chapters of this book will further explore the following broad
research questions:
* What is the role of the city in the knowledge economy?
* What are the main characteristics of KBUD?
* What are the forces and factors of successful KBUD?
* What is the capacity of urban planning in the transformation of
cities into knowledge cities?
The Target Audience
'Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the
Information Era' will appeal to knowledge management practitioners,
economic development planners, public service agencies and
policy-makers in public sector, grant making institutions, urban and
regional development/planning bodies, researchers, academics and
students by bringing together research, action research, best practice
and case studies in an integrated framework to develop and explain
policy and theory development. Thus, the book will have a wide-ranging
audience across the main components of knowledge city and KBUD
throughout the world.
Topics and Structure of the Book
'Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the
Information Era' will gather up-to-date and ongoing research and will
make a significant contribution to the recent literature on KBUD and
the application of the KBUD paradigm to cities. Additionally, it will
include discussion on urban development and planning in the information
age, and, in particular, urban ICT policy making authored by leading
experts and practitioners offering an in-depth explanation of key terms
and concepts related to various practical, theoretical, thematic and
country specific issues of KBUD all around the world. The topics of the
book include, but are not limited to, the following:
Knowledge and the city
* The knowledge economy and society
* Urban innovativeness and knowledge spill-over - tacit and
codified knowledge
* Urban services and infrastructure for knowledge cities
* Social and human capital
* Knowledge workers and quality of life
City knowledge and organisations
* Urban ICT policy and technology adoption: Policy perspective
* Managing ICT related changes in urban environment: Information
systems perspective
* Public ICT policies and the city governments: Organizational
perspective
* Constructing knowledge city image: Management perspective
Knowledge based urban development
* Knowledge cities
* Frameworks for the development of knowledge cities
* Planning for knowledge-based urban development
* Key success factors for knowledge-based urban development
Knowledge city in practice
* Best practices
* Case studies
Selection Criteria and Submission Procedure:
The editors aim to accommodate all proposals subject to quality. In the
event of us being swamped with proposals and given that we want to
avoid as much as possible parallel papers, some selection may take
place. We will make the selection on the basis of quality and
originality of the paper and broad interest to the audience.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a manuscript
proposal clearly explaining the objective, aims, methodology and
expected outcomes of the proposed chapter. We are seeking
proposals/extended abstracts of 500-1000 words for chapters between
6,000 and 10,000 words. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30
June 2006. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 01 August
2006. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 01 December 2006.
All submitted chapters will be peer reviewed by two or three referees
on a blind review basis. This book is tentatively scheduled for
publishing by Idea Group Reference, www.idea-group-ref.com, in 2007.
Submissions including your name, affiliation, position and short
biography (max 250 words) should be forwarded electronically in MSWORD
attachments via e-mail to the editors [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We look forward to your submissions.
With our best wishes,
Dr Tan Yigitcanlar, Dr Koray Velibeyoglu and A/Prof Scott Baum
Urban Research Program
Griffith University
170 Kessels Road, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia
Tel: +61 7 3735 5295
Website: www.griffith.edu.au/centre/urp
Contact email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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