New Workplaces-Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories: A Worldwide Investigation

Preface.- Introduction. Digital technologies, and innovation of works and workplaces.- First Part - Phenomena.- 1. Third places for work: A comprehensive review of the literature on coworking spaces and makerspaces. Mina Akhavan.- 2. The emergence and spread of new collaborative makerspaces: The features of FabLabs in Europe within a global trend. Cecilia Manzo.- 3. The rise of the worldwide phenomenon of coworking spaces: Main patterns and future trends. Mina Akhavan, Vieri Calogero, Ilaria Mariotti.- 4. Exploring new workplaces with social network analysis. Fabio Manfredini, Stefano Saloriani.- Second Part - Actors.- 5. Coworkers and their business relations in localized settings. Veronique Schutjens.- 6. Makers as social innovators. Marianna D'Ovidio.- Third Part - Places.- 7. Situating the new sharing economy: 'Regional geographies' of Greater Seattle's coworking facilities. Yonn Dierwechter.- 8. Detroit after the Rustbelt: Digital innovation and economic regeneration in America's Midwest. Mark Wilson, Eva Kassens-Noor.- 9. Work sprawl: Knowledge work, digitization, and the changing relationship between activity and the city in Ontario. Filipa Pajevic, Richard Shearmur.- 10. The urbanity of coworking spaces in France: The case of the Loire Valley Region. Divya Leducq, Christophe Demazi鋨e.- 11. Urban centrality in the new geography of innovation: Coworking spaces in London and Rome. Stefania Fiorentino, Nicola Livingstone.- 12. Coworking spaces in Italy: Location patterns and urban effects. Ilaria Mariotti.- 13. Observing the evolution of Milan makerspaces: Trajectories for taking roots process in close and far environments. Corinna Morandi.- Fourth Part - Agenda.- 14. What policies after the metamorphosis of workplaces? The case of urban small scale production. Simonetta Armondi.- 15. Clustering and classifying innovative workplaces: Which demands for urban and regional planning? Stefano Di Vita.- Conclusion and further research. Coworking spaces, makerspace, and the connections to territorial and productive ecosystems.- References.