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The Era After Oil: Knowledge-Intensive Cities on the Arabian Gulf

The Era After Oil: Knowledge-Intensive Cities on the Arabian Gulf

Wolfgang G. Stock, Julia Barth, Julia Gremm
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781522573470|ISBN10: 152257347X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587392|EISBN13: 9781522573487
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7347-0.ch005
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Stock, Wolfgang G., et al. "The Era After Oil: Knowledge-Intensive Cities on the Arabian Gulf." Knowledge-Intensive Economies and Opportunities for Social, Organizational, and Technological Growth, edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 63-88. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7347-0.ch005

APA

Stock, W. G., Barth, J., & Gremm, J. (2019). The Era After Oil: Knowledge-Intensive Cities on the Arabian Gulf. In M. Lytras, L. Daniela, & A. Visvizi (Eds.), Knowledge-Intensive Economies and Opportunities for Social, Organizational, and Technological Growth (pp. 63-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7347-0.ch005

Chicago

Stock, Wolfgang G., Julia Barth, and Julia Gremm. "The Era After Oil: Knowledge-Intensive Cities on the Arabian Gulf." In Knowledge-Intensive Economies and Opportunities for Social, Organizational, and Technological Growth, edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras, Linda Daniela, and Anna Visvizi, 63-88. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7347-0.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter investigates seven Gulf cities (Kuwait City, Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, and Muscat) that have grown rich due to large reserves of oil and natural gas. Now, with the threat of ending resources, governments focus on the development towards a knowledge society with knowledge-based industries and knowledge-intensive cities. The authors analyzed the cities in terms of their “smartness” or “informativeness” by field research on-site, a quantitative survey and in-depth qualitative interviews (N = 34). They studied prototypical building blocks of a city of the knowledge society, namely infrastructures (digital city, smart, green and sustainable city, creative city, and knowledge city), economy, politics and administration, location factors, as well as physical and digital spaces. Especially Doha in Qatar is well on its way towards becoming an informational city, but also Dubai and Sharjah (both in the United Arab Emirates) received good scores.

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