This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … - ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …

The era of knowledge-based urban development has led to an unprecedented increase in mobility of people and the … subsequent growth in new typologies of agglomerated enclaves of knowledge such as knowledge and innovation spaces. Within this … context, a new role has been assigned to contemporary public spaces to attract and retain the mobile knowledge workforce by …