Editorial: Evolving nature of knowledge-based urban development

摘要

The idea of knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has emerged as a means of systematically examining the role of knowledge and networks as key components of urban economic evolution (Knight, 1995; Kunzmann, 2009; Yigitcanlar and Lonnqvist, 2013; Carrillo et al., 2014). The paradigm of KBUD has started to become highly popular during the last years of the 20th century considering the impacts of the global knowledge economy on urban localities and societies (Yigitcanlar, 2011). The following are among the commonly accepted views on how KBUD is perceived through time - presented in chronological order: 1. In 1995, Knight published his illuminating article, 'Knowledge-based development: policy and planning implications for cities', arguing the need and emergence of a new approach to city development focusing on KBUD. He defined: "knowledge-based [urban] development [as] the transformation of knowledge resources into local development [which] could provide a basis for sustainable development" [Knight, (1995), pp.225-226].