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Bluetech in Baltimore: Co-creating smart city innovations with local youth

This paper presents a case study of a climate-focussed digital internship pilot program intent on increasing engagement with, and jobs in, the “Bluetech” ocean-based economy in Baltimore, Maryland. Understanding participants’ lived experiences across multiple strands of alignment–including general interest, digital skills and technology access, environmental knowledge, and perceptions of climate and environmental problems–supported their engagement […]

Arriving at Airport City Manchester

The last four decades have witnessed the emergence of zones of various designations as a means of generating economic development and growth. On the one hand, a considerable amount of recent academic attention has turned to the various experiments with enterprise zones, export processing zones, freeport zones, and special economic zones in rapidly urbanizing areas […]