The cosmo-creative society : logistical networks in a dynamic economy
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The cosmo-creative society : logistical networks in a dynamic economy
(Advances in spatial and network economics)
Springer-Verlag, c1993
- : gw
- : us
Available at 26 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Today, telecommunication systems are expanding and evolving at a remarkable rate, with the aid of fiber optics, satellites and comput- erized switchboard systems. Airline systems are providing faster and more efficient networks for world-wide human transportation. Com- puters are now generally accessible to virtually all industries and many households. But perhaps the most important factor is that education systems are expanding the knowledge base for city populations, thus resulting in increased efficiency in the use of computers, telecommuni- cations and rapid transportation systems. The revolutionary age of logistical networks is upon lIS. Logistical networks are those systems which facilitate the movement of knowl- edge, commodities, money, and people in association with thE; produc- tion or consumption of goods and services. Logistical networks form a set of important infrastructure which serve as hard and soft means to sustain all kinds of movement, transactions and diffusion within and between global networks of cities. Major structural changes in the re- gional and urban economy, culture and institutions are triggered by slow but steady changes in global logistical systems.
Table of Contents
1. Logistical Dynamics, Creativity and Infrastructure.- I. Cosmo-Creativity in the Knowledge Society.- 2. Economic Structure of the 21st Century.- 3. The Creative Person.- 4. Synergetics as a Theory of Creativity and Its Planning.- 5. High Technology Worker Mobility.- II. Logistical Network and Chaotic Dynamics.- 6. Some Consequences of 'Recurrence and Expansion': What Can We Learn about Logistical Networks from Chaos?.- 7. The Complexity of Economic Decisions - Anticipatory Human Behavior.- 8. Incomplete Information and Logistical Network Equilibria.- III. Network Dynamics with Cosmo-Creativity.- 9. Entrepreneurship in the New Technological Regime.- 10. Network Cities versus Central Place Cities: Building a Cosmo-Creative Constellation.- 11. Economic Evolution and Urban Infrastructure Dynamics.- IV. Infrastructure for the Cosmo-Creative Society.- 12. Information Technology and Urban Spatial Structure.- 13. Impacts of Developments in Telecommunication Systems on Travel Demand and the Location of Office Firms.- 14. Spatial Equilibria of Knowledge Production with ' M ?? ting- Facilities'.- 15. Dynamic Change of Urban Housing Stock, Construction and Demolition.- 16. Optimal Regional Investment Control Using Hallmark Events.- V. Planning and Policy Perspectives.- 17. Creative Renaissance of the Osaka Bay Area - Towards a Cosmo-Creative Region in the 21st Century.- List of Contributors.
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