Prosperous City Research Articles

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Light was the symbol of the city's prosperity and culture. People can walk around the city at the night time with safe. Now light is used with beauty and function at the same time. This study is the example how to draw the lighting design concept in specific city and district based on the citizen-minded survey. The citizen-minded survey makes a new chance taking the goodness and characteristics from local city specially and select the site for applying the specific opinion and requirement in the city. The expression of design concept on night landscape design gives the fresh image to the city during the night time. Because people feel the free and dynamic mood in the night landscape lighting, it is very important to set and express the design concept on night landscape design. The result of this study was applied in the Daegu city. In particular, the distribution complex's night landscape lighting in the Daegu was designed with specific concept expression from the citizen-minded survey. Making and expressing the design concept on night landscape design is basic for unity and diversity in the city.

Spatio-temporal features and the dynamic mechanism of shopping center expansion in Shanghai

Since the first modern shopping centre was built in the United States in the 1920s, shopping centres have gradually become representative patterns of economic growth and consumerism in the United States, and these patterns are now trending globally. Shopping centres have demonstrated tremendous development potential since their initial entry into China in the 1990s. Shanghai is the most economically prosperous city in China, and the development and evolution of its shopping centres reflect the trend in China's commercial real estate development. Therefore, based on the central-place and agglomeration economy theory, this paper quantitatively measures and analyses the spatial gravity, extending direction, agglomeration characteristics and hierarchical structure of Shanghai's shopping centres using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and spatial analysis. Moreover, this paper analyses the dynamic mechanism of urban development and its patterns of centripetal and centrifugal movement. The results demonstrate the following. (1) The spatial gravity points are located in the districts of Huangpu, Luwan and Xuhui in the city centre and within the inner ring. In addition, there is a trend to be gradually near the middle ring, exhibiting an obvious tendency from the northeast to the southwest. (2) Shopping centres in Shanghai exhibit a clustered distribution in the centres of urban areas, which form numerous business districts that extend in the same direction. (3) The hot spot analysis is a very effective method for identifying the hierarchy of business circles. (4) Planning by the government is the most important external impetus, and commercial agglomeration is the internal force determining the spatial expansion of shopping centres. Additionally, urban transportation patterns have an obvious influence on the spatial morphology of shopping centres. (5) Over the last two decades, the spatial development of Shanghai's shopping centres has reached a balance between the centripetal and centrifugal forces. In other words, we have not observed a tendency towards suburbanization, which indicates that Shanghai's shopping centres are still in the early stages of development. Therefore, future shopping centres may be primarily located in the stretch or peripheral zones of the city.

Imported Expertise in World-class Knowledge Infrastructures: The Problematic Development of Knowledge Cities in the Gulf Region

Due to the oil business, settlements in the Gulf Region developed into prosperous cities. But in the near future, oil is off. The plans of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states bank on diversified and knowledge-intensive economies. Are those development plans realistic? What is the state of the art of knowledge institutions in the GCC countries? Applying the theoretical frameworks of Knowledge City and Science Indicators research, we empirically and theoretically studied the emerging Gulf cities Kuwait City (Kuwait), Manama (Bahrain), Doha (Qatar), Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah (all UAE), and Muscat (Oman). Our methodological framework includes grounded theory, ethnographic field study, ServQual-like quantitative questionnaires and semi-standardized qualitative interviews conducted on-site with informed people, informetrics, and, finally, the use of official statistics. In particular, we describe and analyze the cities’ knowledge infrastructures, their academics, and expenditure on R&D as input indicators; and publications as well as graduates as output indicators. A further crucial aspect of a knowledge society is the transition of graduates into knowledge-intensive public services and private companies.

The Influence of Drivers and Barriers on Urban Adaptation and Mitigation Plans-An Empirical Analysis of European Cities.

Cities are recognised as key players in global adaptation and mitigation efforts because the majority of people live in cities. However, in Europe, which is highly urbanized and one of the most advanced regions in terms of environmental policies, there is considerable diversity in the regional distribution, ambition and scope of climate change responses. This paper explores potential factors contributing to such diversity in 200 large and medium-sized cities across 11 European countries. We statistically investigate institutional, socio-economic, environmental and vulnerability characteristics of cities as potential drivers of or barriers to the development of urban climate change plans. Our results show that factors such as membership of climate networks, population size, GDP per capita and adaptive capacity act as drivers of mitigation and adaptation plans. By contrast, factors such as the unemployment rate, warmer summers, proximity to the coast and projected exposure to future climate impacts act as barriers. We see that, overall, it is predominantly large and prosperous cities that engage in climate planning, while vulnerable cities and those at risk of severe climate impacts in the future are less active. Our analysis suggests that climate change planning in European cities is not proactive, i.e. not significantly influenced by anticipated future impacts. Instead, we found that the current adaptive capacity of a city significantly relates to climate planning. Along with the need to further explore these relations, we see a need for more economic and institutional support for smaller and less resourceful cities and those at high risk from climate change impacts in the future.

3D subsurface modelling reveals the shallow geology of Amsterdam

AbstractAmsterdam is situated on the coastal-deltaic plain of the western Netherlands. Its geographical position brought the city prosperity, but also created huge challenges associated with heterogeneous and often adverse ground conditions. This paper explores the geology of Amsterdam to a depth of c. 100 m, based on the output of the 3D geological subsurface models DGM and GeoTOP. The model results are used to create a geological map of the area, to determine the extent and depth of the foundation levels that are in use for buildings in the city centre and to detect the source of filling sand on which part of the more recent expansion of the city was founded. It is shown that subsurface conditions have had a profound effect on both landscape development and historical city growth. Geomodels like DGM and GeoTOP provide an easily accessible way to obtain a better understanding of the shallow subsurface.

Hot-Heads, Gentlemen and the Liberties of Tradesmen

Over the summer and autumn of 1739 Philadelphia’s two newspapers published competing versions of a hearing in the Pennsylvania assembly that was described as the ‘Affair of the Tanners’. What began as a minor property dispute in the colonial assembly became, with the aid of the local press, a citywide paper war for the support of the urban populace. This article argues the affair provides unique evidence for competing conceptions of the common good in the eighteenth-century colonial city, and was an expression of conflict with deep roots in Philadelphia’s history. The affair also shows how the medium of print could reflect both transatlantic cultural processes as well as distinctly local grievances, as a group of prosperous city artisans and their opponents utilized the city’s newspapers to articulate competing commonwealth ideologies.

Ex nihilo: The Christian creation story and the founding of modern Singapore

Singapore is often lauded as a triumph of modernity—a prosperous city created from nothing—based on a logic perversely parallel to that of the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. However, this brief essay argues that the nationalistic narrative of Singapore as pure, Man-made creation participates in a colonial historiography that not only hides but continues to enact forms of erasure and destruction.

Urban Regeneration and Community Survival in Postwar Japan

As we can see it written on the fabric of their townscapes, Japan’s cities have been in crisis for generations. In regional Japan, economic stagnation, the decline of agriculture on their peripheries, and the migration en masse of cohorts of school graduates to work on the Pacific coast left urban centres underpopulated and often lacking in social and economic vibrancy. Even in the more prosperous cities, including Tokyo and Kyoto, a programme of relentless economic development at all costs, albeit interrupted every generation or so by periods of economic slowdown, has delivered a steady dose of physical demolition and psychic instability that is reflected in the hodge-podge of building styles, construction qualities, and alternating pockets of cohesiveness and disarray that comprise the patterns of their urban texture. Yet over the course of nearly seven decades since the end of the Pacific War, Japanese in the Tokyo metropolis, in Kyoto and Kobe, and in the regions have attempted to respond to this crisis of physical and cultural dislocation. Each in their own way, the authors of the four books under discussion here attempt to chart the ways in which Japanese have sought to achieve the elusive goal of ‘livable cities’, in the term used by Sorensen and Funck, marked by the active involvement of citizens in city planning processes and efforts toward community sustainability.

Modern secondary education and economic performance: the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth‐century Bavaria†

Do new school types focusing on practical and business‐related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyse this question, this article examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth‐century Bavaria. Since the opening of these schools is arguably endogenous—as it was mainly the large, prosperous cities that opened one—the estimated treatment effect capturing the economic influence of the Gewerbeschule/Realschule will lead to biased results. To alleviate this bias, propensity score matching is adopted to compare relatively similar counties with and without these schools. Using historical county‐level data on tax revenues, business formations, employment structure, and patent holdings, ordinary least squares regression analysis shows that the opening of a modern secondary school is in general positively associated with economic performance several years later.

Empedocles: Neurophilosophy and Neurosciences- Prophecy and Reality

Neurosciences are extended into a broad field, where the scientific observation and research join harmoniously the imagination, the intuition, the philosophy, the critic analysis, the enthusiasm and the skepticism, opening new horizons in the theoretic perspectives and offering new motivations for research, on the bases of an advanced multi-dimensional intellectuality. From the Era of Pre-Socratic philosophers, soul and mind have been the subject of continuous speculation, study, research and meditation [1]. Questions that the human being posed to himself, concerning the existence, the soul, the psychosomatic entity, the cognition, the knowledge of the world, and the perception of time and space used to exercise always an existential anxiety. Very frequently, human emotions have been the foci of insisting endeavors for right interpretation and detailed analysis. Reasonably, the importance of the mental activities and interior feelings on the psychosomatic homeostasis are subjects of inquiry from the Greek antiquity up to our Era [2]. Among the pre-Socratic philosophers Empedocles may be considered as the most proximate to Neurosciences. He was younger that Heraclitus [3] and older than Socrates, born in the city of Acragas (Agrigento, Sicily) one of the most prosperous and beautiful cities of the “Grecia Magna”, in 492 BC. We don’t know any detail of Empedocles’ life. Diogenes Laeertius’ records on Empedocles are intermixed with myths, stories and legends of contradictory character [4,5]. From all the records, we can conclude that Empedocles was philosopher, physician and priest, mystic and prophet, poet of a high talent, brilliant orator, man of exceptional knowledge, characterized by generosity and magnanimity, who attempted to associate philosophy with science. Empedocles writings are mainly summarized in two poems, written in hexameter verse [6]. One of them was entitled “On Nature” and the other “Purifications”. [7,8] The poem on Nature has an obvious cosmologic character, introducing at the same time the main principles of evolutional ontology. The other poems entitle “Purifications” has a strong religious character. From the two poems only 450 lines, in fragments, have been survived, which are strong enough for revieling the philosophical principles, the clarity of the mind, the enthusiastic character of the philosopher and the influences by Heraclitus [9] and Parmenides [10,11]. Some of Empedocles’ concepts may also be attributed to Anaximander and Pythagoras, while his methodology may be attributed to Anaxagoras. Empedocles endeavored to enter in the depths of the human soul in order to discover the interior power which motivates the emotions, the feelings and the social behavior of the human being. He tried to identify the main pivots of the emotional interactions. He insisted that Love and Strife are the ends of an axis, which regulates and controls all the spectrum of the human emotions. According to Empedocles there is not birth or coming into existence and death. There is only a connection or mixture and separation of four pure fundamental elements or “roots”, which are “the earth”, “the air”, “the fire” and “the water”. According to Aristotle these four elements, which have been traditional concepts in Greek physical theory [12], were mentioned first by Empedocles. The theory of the four fundamental elements or roots is not far from the scientific reality, since earth symbolizes the carbon (C), the basis of any organic substance, the water (H

Lost dreams? Tales of the South African city twenty years after apartheid

When Phindile (this is not her real name) left rural Kwa Zulu in 1989 for Johannesburg, she had every hope of building a better life in the city. She dreamed of a place where she was free from the trauma of virginity testing, where she could move freely as a black woman, and where she could own her own home and have children that she could bequeath a better life than the one she had had. A few years later, the incoming government of the African National Congress (ANC) had a similar dream for its citizens – the right of all South Africans, regardless of race, creed or gender, to dream of a better future. In its Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), the new ANC government promised to create ‘an integrated programme, based on the people, that provides peace and security for all and builds the nation, links reconstruction and development and deepens democracy’ (ANC, 1994, p. 7, emphasis in original). What has happened to both the state's and Phindile's dream 20 years later? Through Phindile's life, a single mother of two, this article explores the extent to which 20 years of democracy has changed the urban landscape and realized the state's vision for a non-racial, integrated and prosperous city for all. We follow Phindile through Gauteng, the country's most urbanized province, as she migrates to the city, looks for work, rents a shack in an informal settlement and eventually gets her own state-provided RDP home in the province's East Rand. Phindile's life becomes a window through which we examine how public policies, policy statements and programmes affect individual lives. We follow the evolution of key policies on local government housing policies, the constitution, integrated development plans, the National Development Plan and other official statements and legal statutes that relate to cities. Through Phindile's experience we move beyond discourses of policy ‘failure’ or ‘success’, allowing us to understand how policy deeply impacts personal lives – for better or worse. By juxtaposing Phindile's everyday life with official declarations, visions and statements, we see the progress, setbacks and stagnation of South Africa's dream to create a rainbow nation with cities that are racially, economically and socially integrated.

Towards prosperous sustainable cities: A multiscalar urban sustainability assessment approach

Prosperity and environmental sustainability of cities are inextricably linked. Cities can only maintain their prosperity when environmental and social objectives are fully integrated with economic goals. Sustainability assessment helps policy-makers decide what actions they should and should not take to make our cities more sustainable. There are numerous models available for measuring and evaluating urban sustainability; they focus their analysis on a specific scale—i.e., micro, mezzo, or macro. In most cases, these results are inadequate for the other scales, though generating reliable results for that particular scale. The paper introduces a multiscalar urban sustainability approach by linking two sustainability assessment models evaluate sustainability performances in micro- and mezzo-levels and generate multiscalar results for the macro-level. The paper tests this approach in Gold Coast, Australia, and sheds light on the development of a more accurate sustainability analysis that may be interconnected with UN-Habitat's City Prosperity Index.

Quality of urban life & environmental sustainability studies: Future linkage opportunities

Throughout much of the world, cities are growing at an unprecedented rate presenting major challenges for national and local governmental officials. Not only must they cope with growing populations and an expanding infrastructure to accommodate growth, governments have to satisfy the changing needs of their existing populations. The challenge is particularly formidable for policy makers and planners. Research that addresses the quality of life (QOL) of urban residents can be helpful in meeting this challenge. In particular, research that measures and monitors the quality of urban life (QOUL) can inform policy makers and planners. Such research can also examine the culture of sustainability among urban residents, an increasingly important concept in the planning and management of cities. This paper offers operational definitions of QOL and QOUL. It then briefly reviews QOUL studies conducted in selected world cities during the past decade. Next, several types of measures are described as well as the conceptual models used to test relationships between the measures. Finally, measures covering the culture of sustainability among urban residents are suggested as part of QOUL studies. Such studies can be instrumental in the development of City Prosperity Indexes.

Perceived Residential Environment Quality Indicators (PREQIs) relevance for UN-HABITAT City Prosperity Index (CPI)

This paper presents some relevant tools for UN-HABITAT CPI, addressing the relationship between residential neighbourhood assessment, neighbourhood attachment and overall residential satisfaction of residents in the Iranian the city of Tabriz. The first aim of the study is to validate some cross-cultural tools – focusing on the Quality of Life (QOL) spoke of the CPI's wheel of urban prosperity – for use in an urban residential context (Fornara et al., 2010); specifically an abbreviated version of the Perceived Residential Environment Quality Indicators (PREQIs) and the Neighbourhood Attachment Scale (NAS), as well as items for measurement of Residential Satisfaction (RS). The instruments consist of 11 scales measuring PREQIs, one scale measuring Neighbourhood Attachment and three items about RS. The second aim is to test a model of the links among the constructs measured by these tools that deal with different features of QOL. For example, if some global PREQIs (i.e., pace of life) mediate the relationship between other, more specific PREQIs and Neighbourhood Attachment; and then if they ultimately predict RS, they may be considered as final outcome criteria. PREQIs, NAS and RS items are included in a self-report questionnaire, (translated from English into Farsi language) and then administered to 239 residents of Tabriz, Iran. Multivariate statistical analyses of the survey results extends the cross-cultural validity of the tools, as well as testing relationship models going from specific to global PREQIs, to NAS, finally predicting RS. The discussion argues for the relevance of PREQIs, NAS and RS constructs and tools in deepening the knowledge on the QOL spoke within the UN-HABITAT CPI.

A framework for ‘City Prosperity Index’: Linking indicators, analysis and policy

This paper argues for a more robust and flexible framework to develop the ‘City Prosperity Index’ (CPI), one which is able to connect indicators and analytical intelligence with the policy needs of urban planners and government strategists. The adoption of a more progressive and balanced agenda of ‘people-centred’ urban prosperity in the UN-Habitat's newly developed CPI has already led to a more holistic approach to integrating productivity, infrastructure, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, and environmental sustainability into a coherent framework. Building on this international agenda, there is still scope to critically revise and improve the conceptual and methodological framework of the CPI, probably in an incremental manner, to make it a more tailored policy instrument that can truly address the different sets of challenges faced by cities in different regions under different socio-spatial contexts to achieve sustainable prosperity.

Incorporating stakeholder input into transport project selection – A step towards urban prosperity in developing countries?

In 2013, UN-Habitat released the State of The World's Cities 2012/2013 report introducing the City Prosperity Index (CPI) as a measure to guide urban decision makers. The report asserts that urban prosperity is one of the key human development issues facing the world. Transport is a basic component of urban infrastructure and is essential to urban prosperity. Urban transport system users in a given area comprise people with diverse background and socioeconomic characteristics including different ages, genders, income ranges, employment status, and experiential knowledge. Effective involvement of diverse urban populations is a necessary prerequisite to sustainable urban transport planning. This paper describes the development of a proposed framework, the Localized Sustainability Score (LSS), for screening urban transport projects based. Specifically, the framework assesses the relative importance of various locally applicable sustainability criteria and maps the ability of candidate urban transport projects to positively impact them. The development of the LSS is described via a case study in Accra, Ghana. Ultimately, the proposed LSS is seen as a useful means of relating transport infrastructure to various sustainability/urban prosperity measures. More specifically, the LSS framework can used to rank and priorities urban transport projects as part of a stakeholder-driven decision-making process. Development and application of the LSS framework does not require extensive collection of quantitative data; it is particularly suited to relating qualitative information (such as that contained in urban prosperity measurements) to the capabilities of urban transport projects to impact them. Continued development and application of the LSS can be used to develop richer understandings of various indices and how they reflect the lives of different demographic groups that make up an urban population. It is hoped that exploratory efforts like the development of the LSS and large-scale programs such as the CPI development by UN-Habitat will continue to draw attention to the need (and indeed capacity) to comprehensively approach urban development issues with a view to increasing urban prosperity.

Invention and reinvention: the evolution of San Diego's innovation economy

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham Shragge chronicle San Diego's transformation from a small West Coast settlement to a booming military metropolis and then to a successful innovation hub. This instructive story of a second-tier city that transformed its core economic identity can serve as a rich case and a model for similar regions. Stressing the role that cultural values and social dynamics played in its transition, the authors discern five distinct, recurring factors upon which San Diego capitalized at key junctures in its economic growth. San Diego-though not always a star city-has been able to repurpose its assets and realign its economic development strategies continuously in order to sustain prosperity. Chronicling over a century of adaptation, this book offers a lively and penetrating tale of how one city reinvented itself to meet the demands of today's economy, lighting the way for others.

“ŞAİRLER MENBAI” VARDAR YENİCESİ VE VARDAR YENİCELİ ÜÇ ŞAİR: HAYRETÎ - USÛLÎ - HAYÂLÎ*

Vardar Yenicesi (Yenice-i Vardar) which was connected to the province of Thessaloniki during the Ottoman Period, is today located within the borders of Greece and named by Giannitsa/ Yannitsa. Vardar Yenicesi was conquered by Evrenos Bey during the period of Murat the Ist, and shortly thereafter became a center of Ottoman culture as a reult of the settlement of Turkishspeaking people. When tezkires, which are the main sources of classical Turkish literature, are examined, it can be found that Vardar Yenicesi trained more poets than many large settlements. Despite Vardar Yenicesi being a long distance away from Istanbul, the city which was the cultural center of the Ottoman Empire, it is the source of the poets and the reason for this is the influence of its mystical atmosphere. Vardar Yenicesi, which was under the auspices of Evrenesogullari, was turned into a prosperous city as the result of a mosque, a madrasas, numerous precincts and hans being built. The spiritual structure of the city was completed by Molla Ilâhi, who went to the city at the invitation of Evrenosoglu Ahmet Bey. Molla Ilâhi provided the understanding that mystical ideas (which were based on vahdet-i vucut) spread in this region and that environment helped train more poets like Hayâli, Hayreti, Usuli, Sirri, Gunâhi, Âgehi, Yusuf-i Sine-câk who were affected by it. These poets all shared certain characteristics: a sincere way of speaking, an indomitable attitude, and a way of life that was oblivious to the rest of the world. In this study, Vardar Yenicesi is evaluated as a cultural center, and also Hayreti and Usuli ve Hayâli, who are important poets that grew up there, are evaluated in the view of the mystical system they are connected to. In addition, a reflection on the effect that this mystical system had on their poems will also be examined

Essai d'histoire sociolinguistique: le francais picard au Moyen Age

This ambitious and stimulating work seeks not only to present a detailed study of Picard French in the Middle Ages in its sociolinguistic context ― a worthy goal in itself ― but also to develop a new approach to the study of the relationship between language and society in the past, which the author names ‘sociolinguistic history’. Whereas in historical sociolinguistics ‘l'histoire ne semble que dresser le décor d'une pièce dont les répliques sont échangées entre le linguiste et les sources du passé qu'il interroge’ (p. 41), sociolinguistic history uses findings drawn from linguistic and metalinguistic sources to inform the study of social history, taking as its inspiration Lucien Febvre's observation that ‘la langue [est] le fait social par excellence’ (quoted on p. 9). An historian by training, the author's mastery of sociolinguistic research is exemplary. Concerning Picard French, the core claim is that the variety had a similar high status to the French of Paris until the fifteenth century, being used in literature and in administrative documents over a wide geographical area. Chapter 3, which discusses the role of the University of Paris in the formation of Picard identity, is particularly insightful. The author argues that the term ‘Picard’ originated not in the north of France but in the University of Paris as an initially derogatory term to designate both people from the dioceses north of Beauvais and the language that they spoke. Thirteenth-century sources from the university refer to four ‘nations’ of students based on their geographical origin, one of which is the ‘nation of Picards’; yet at this time sources from the Picard region itself refer to their language consistently as ‘roman’ (as opposed to ‘françois’). Moreover, since the (Parisian) ‘nation of Picards’ was ‘le lieu qui réunissait la plus grande concentration de lettrés picards’ (p. 142), its role in the formation of a relatively fixed Picard scripta, subsequently diffused through schools in the Picard region, should not be underestimated. Evidence for the high status of Picard French is discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, where the relationship between Picard, French, Anglo-French, and Dutch is considered. For example, administrative documents ‘translated’ into Picard from françois or Anglo-French demonstrate an awareness on the part of scribes of the differences between the scriptae, and it is significant that native Dutch speakers in the provinces of Flanders and Brabant consistently adopt Picard, rather than Parisian French. Although it is convincingly argued that Picard French existed as a written scripta, it is harder to assess its status as a supraregional spoken norm. In Chapter 6, it is argued that literary and cultural exchanges between prosperous northern cities, such as the puys de rhétorique, served to promote Picard French, yet these remain limited to the middle classes, and thus the supraregional norm emerges ‘en particulier à l’écrit' (p. 273). To assess the likelihood that a spoken norm existed, it would perhaps be fruitful to compare what we know of medieval Picard with studies of koineization and dialect-levelling situations in the present day.

Innovating urban policymaking and planning mechanisms to deliver knowledge-based agendas: a methodological approach

This paper aims to develop a comprehensive approach to innovate urban policymaking and planning to successfully deliver the knowledge-based agenda. The paper, first, examines the concept of knowledge-based urban development, which has become a popular urban development policy and strategy in recent years, through a comprehensive review of the literature. It, then, introduces and discusses a novel methodological approach for effective policymaking and planning mechanism to deliver the knowledge-based agenda of cities. The paper, with the proposed methodology, brings together urban policymaking and planning approaches, and introduces a novel way to assess knowledge-based urban development achievements and potentials of emerging and prosperous knowledge cities. The paper, thus, provides an invaluable instrument to inform local and regional decision and plan making mechanisms to deliver their knowledge-based agendas and help them in moving towards building their sustainable knowledge cities.