Technopoles of the world : the making of twenty-first-century industrial complexes / Manuel Castells and Peter Hall.

Main entry:

Castells, Manuel, 1942-

Title & Author:

Technopoles of the world : the making of twenty-first-century industrial complexes / Manuel Castells and Peter Hall.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

x, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-270) and index.
Technopoles: mines and foundries of the informational economy -- Silicon Valley: where it all began -- Boston's highway 128: high-technology reindustrialization -- Science city blues: innovation by design? -- Technology parks: inducing the new industrial space -- Japan's technopolis program -- The metropolis as innovative milieu -- Building techno-cities: the politics of techno-dreams -- Distilling the lessons -- Building technopoles.

Summary:

"This book is the first systematic survey of technopoles in all its manifestations: science parks, science cities, national technopolis and technobelt programmes. Detailed case studies, ranging from Silicon Valley to Siberia and from the M4 Corridor to Taiwan, relate how global technopoles have developed, what each is striving to achieve and how well it is suceeding."--Back cover.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0415100143
9780415100144
0415100151 (pbk.)
9780415100151 (pbk.)

Subject:

Research parks.
Research parks Case studies.
Parcs scientifiques.
Parcs scientifiques Cas, Études de.
Parcs scientifiques Études de cas.
research parks.
Pays développés.
Analyse comparative.
Parcs technologiques.
Technologiezentrum
Science parks.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Onderzoeksinstellingen.
Indústrias (localização;economia)
Industrial estates

Form/genre:

Case studies.

Added entries:

Hall, Peter, 1932-2014.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269973
Call No.: BIB 202476
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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