Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy

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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 wide 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Rediscovering Places (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 1-22 The Lucky Country Still? (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 23-50 Australian Cities in Competition (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 51-83 Global Innovative Places (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 85-119 Dissecting Innovative Places (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 121-154 Pursuing Innovation in Australian Cities (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 155-190 The Art of Crafting (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 191-218 The Smart Way Forward (Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu)....Pages 219-255 Back Matter ....Pages 257-263