Sokol, Martin, Van Egeraat, Chris and Williams, Brendan (2008) Revisiting the ‘Informational City’: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and the Geography of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Emerging Global City-Region of Dublin. Regional Studies, 42 (8). pp. 1133-1146. ISSN 0034-3404
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Abstract
Revisiting the ‘informational city’: space of flows, polycentricity and the geography
of knowledge-intensive business services in the emerging global city-region of Dublin, Regional Studies. The paper
engages with the notion that the new spatial logic, underpinned by information and communication technology (ICT) and
the ‘space of flows’, manifests itself in the form of ‘informational cities’ described as multinuclear spatial structures or polycentric
city-regions in the knowledge-based economy. Focusing on the geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), the
paper argues that there is little evidence of such polycentric pattern emerging within the Greater Dublin Region, Ireland. The
exploration of factors underpinning weak decentralization tendencies of KIBS opens for reconsideration the concept of the ‘informational
city’.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS); Polycentricity; City-region Dublin; informational cities; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
Item ID: | 6129 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Chris Van Egeraat |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2015 15:49 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Regional Studies |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6129 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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