Urban High-Technology Zones

Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography. Using a combination of advanced geospatial data-driven techniques with evidence-based insights, the book provides quantitative measures on high tech cluster's social, environmental and economic impacts. While findings are from drawn cities in the US, the book's spatial analyses, methodology, research conclusions and literature reviews are generalizable to cities around the world. Users will find numerous insights and guidance on the role high-tech clusters play in how cities reach their economic growth and social equity goals, making it a useful resource for academic research and policy guidance. - Draws on disaggregated firm-level data to provide strong analytical granularity - Includes numerous and diverse case studies focusing economic externalities, policy implementation, and institutional barriers - Examines such issues as housing affordability and high-tech clusters' place attributes

Dr. Ahoura Zandi(atashbar) is Urban and Regional Planning Assistant Professor and Co-Founder of the Spatial Analytics & Visualization Institute (SAVI) at San José State University (SJSU). His research focuses on micro-level analysis of the US high-tech zones and urban form's role in equitable robust knowledge economy and healthy communities. Dr. Zandi is the author of multiple articles in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Urban Studies, the Journal of the American Planning Association and Cities. Prior to joining SJSU, Dr. Zandi was a key member in developing Illinois Map The Count 2020, Illinois COVID-19 Vulnerability, and Chicago's Tap Water web-maps; during his service at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a clinical assistant professor in Urban Data Visualization Lab (UDVL). Dr. Zandi is the winner of People's Choice Best Research Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and First Place Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2015 as part of the Campus RainWorks Challenge.