Place Making for Knowledge Generation and Innovation: Planning and Branding Brisbane's Knowledge Community Precincts

Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Guaralda, Mirko; Taboada, Manuela; Pancholi, Surabhi

doi:10.1080/10630732.2015.1090198

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“…Subsequently, many cities or areas have been labelled (by city marketers, policy makers, businesses or residents) as having a creative, innovative or knowledge-based image. Such branding endeavours are aimed at gearing urban local images towards specific audiences (Yigitcanlar et al 2016). Research of Montanari, Scapolan and Mizzau (2018) confirms that such an image is important, as creative workers base their locational choices (partly) on expectations regarding a place's image.…”

Section: The Affordances Of Reputationmentioning

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Close to the ‘local cool’: creative place reputation in Dutch ‘ordinary cities’

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2019

Creative Industries Journal

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Creative workers have a tendency to co-locate in creative places, and their locational decision-making processes have been the topic of numerous studies. Yet, the vast majority of research has traditionally focused on the quintessential creative cities and metropolises. Much less is known about locational decision-making practices of creative workers in the 'ordinary' second and third tier cities. This paper aims to explore the mechanisms behind colocation in these smaller cities by looking at the influence and importance of place reputation on the attraction and retention of creative workers. Based upon 43 interviews with co-located Dutch creative entrepreneurs in such cities, we argue that in the absence of the metropolitan appeal, place reputation serves a multifaceted, yet essential role. First, tapping into the global creative city narrative provided creative and/or professional legitimation, as well as personal inspiration. Second, respondents commodified this reputation in their branding practices, which subsequently functioned as a pull-factor for other creative workers. Therefore, even though we observed many creatives do not utilise their local networks in their daily professional or creative work, place reputation afforded the development and sustainability of local buzz and knowledge exchange in cities where these networks did not organically occur. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: The Affordances Of Reputationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Close to the ‘local cool’: creative place reputation in Dutch ‘ordinary cities’

Wijngaarden

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Bhansing

2019

Creative Industries Journal

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“…In terms of the key public space design and place making strategies that the master plan is implementing, the use of anchor projects, main street development and especially a layout-based on connectivity and permeability have been highlighted as KGUV's main features. These features are also present in several other KISs in South-East Queensland, for example Boggo Road Urban Village and Knowledge-based Research and Business Precinct, and the proposed Knowledge Town of Sippy Downs at the Sunshine Coast (see Yigitcanlar et al 2015b). This is to say a local typology for KBUD is clearly emerging slowly but surely in Brisbane, which is also considering the local subtropical character that allows open space living and the traditional outdoor living of the Australian culture.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…KGUV is a sustainable urban community developed as an integrated and masterplanned urban village within a mixed-use and highly urban environment (Brisbane City Plan 2000; Yigitcanlar et al 2015b). This Queensland Government's flagship urban renewal project is developed as a joint initiative by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Queensland Government Department of Housing, only 2 kilometers from Brisbane's CBD.…”

Section: Contemporary Public Space Design In Kelvin Grove Urban Villagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The strong foundation of Brisbane in a number of knowledge industry sectors such as biotechnology and biosciences, aviation and aerospace, and information technology has fuelled the development of KISs in and around the city (Yigitcanlar & Velibeyoglu 2008), such as KGUV, Da Vinci Airport Precinct, information technology sector in Milton, CBD and Fortitude Valley (also hosting the entertainment sector), Boggo Road Urban Village and Knowledge-based Research and Business Precinct and Dutton Park, on the Southside Nathan with Griffith University campus, Mt Gravatt Research Park and Brisbane Technology Park, Griffith University on the Gold Coast, on the north side University of the Sunshine Coast Knowledge Town and so on. A few of these locations are in the developmental stage and others are already fullyfledged and functional (Yigitcanlar et al 2015b).…”

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Public space design of knowledge and innovation spaces: learnings from Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane

Pancholi

Yiğitcanlar

Guaralda

2015

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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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 creating a sense of place. This paper investigates place making in the globalized knowledge economy, which develops a sense of permanence spatio-temporally to knowledge workers displaying a set of particular characteristics and simultaneously is process-dependent getting developed by the internal and external flows and contributing substantially in the development of the broader context it stands in relation with. The paper reviews the literature and highlights observations from Kelvin Grove Urban Village, located in Australia's new world city Brisbane, to understand the application of urban design as a vehicle to create and sustain place making in knowledge and innovation spaces. This research seeks to analyze the modified permeable typology of public spaces that makes knowledge and innovation spaces more viable and adaptive as per the changing needs of the contemporary globalized knowledge society.

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“…The 16.5 hectare mixed use development envisioned a spatial framework that optimises physical, virtual and social links. The combined corporate objectives for an 'integrated university facilities with a range of housing types and commercial activities' (Wardner and Hefferan, 2015) centred on the creation of a new Creative Industries Precinct as the anchor facility providing the catalyst for a creative suburb and knowledge based urban development (Pancholi et al, 2015;Yigitcanlar et al, 2016). KGUV is a model for inner city sites and suburban areas (QUT, 2002), a unique creative community offering a knowledge network, lifestyle choice, and connected environment (QUT, 2004).…”

Section: Kelvin Grove Urban Village: Brisbanementioning

confidence: 99%