Subject(s): Urban economics -- Sustainable development -- Urban regions Regional planning -- Global Expansion of markets -- Urban Impact of economical globalisation -- globalization, Economic restructuring and Emergence of a new space economy -- change in patterns of airline services and city -- Changing urban hierarchy -- European Integration -- Information and communication technology -- urban hierarchies in information age -- changing hierarchy in Japan: impact of the high speed rail -- Innovation and Urban development -- City suburb competition -- Development and Information Technology : -- Creation of Technopoles -- Local milieux of knowledge-based industries -- Regional Potential for creative response to structural change -- techno-sustainability -- Technopolis to enterprise zone -- Sustainable patterns of living and working -- Metropolitan structure and mobility -- sustainable congestion -- Information Technologies , Telecommuting and cities -- Sustainable Society -- Sustainable Urban Ecosystem