Elsevier Urban High-Technology Zones

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. Review Shows how high-tech city clusters form and impact urban quality-of-life during economic development initiatives From the Back Cover <p><i>Development for Smart Cities</i> offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society.</p> <p><i>High-Technology Zones: Urban Planning and Economic Development for Smart Cities</i> looks at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, and quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities. 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.</p> <p>While the 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. <i>High-Technology Zones: Urban Planning and Economic Development for Smart Cities</i> provides numerous insights and guidance on the role high-tech clusters play in cities reaching their economic, growth, and social equity goals, making it a useful resource for academic research and policy guidance.</p> About the Author Ahoura Zandi-atashbar is Clinical Assistant Professor of Geospatial Analysis at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on exploring the spatial and economic landscape of high-tech clusters and innovation of high-tech firms with respect to the built environment and transportation infrastructures. He has scholarly publications in top-ranked journals such as Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Urban Studies, and Cities. His research activities also resulted in two awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for more than five journals. Shima Hamidi is Professor of American Health in Environmental Challenges at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She has written over extensively on urban form and its impacts on economic productivity, innovation, individuals’ mobility, public health, traffic safety, housing affordability, and location efficiency. Her research has been cited in more than 110 national and regional newspapers and magazines such as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and CNN Money.