Crafting Innovative Places for Australias Knowledge Economy - Edward J Blakely Richard Hu Gebunden

This book integrates planning policy economics and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation urbanisation and new technology it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape innovative capacity and competitiveness. It notably situates the innovative place making paradigm in a broader context of globalisation urbanisation the knowledge economy and technological advancement and employs an international perspective that includes a w ide range of case studies from America Europe Asia and Australia. Developing a co-design and co-creation paradigm that integrates governments the private sector and the community into shared understanding and collaborative action in crafting innovative places it discusses place-based innovation in Australian context to inform policy making and planning and to contribute to policy debates on programs of smart cities and communities.