Abstract:

Knowledge-intensive location decisions follow different logics on different scales to optimise their value-creation processes across space. However, the resilience and innovation capacity of the economy and society face structural challenges of deglobalisation, decarbonisation, demographics and digitalisation. At the same time, the demand for knowledge-intensive workers is increasing. The location choices of firms are confronted with rapidly altering market forces. The growing demand-side power of the workforce – and their location preferences – challenge firms and cities to rethink the use and design of space and neighbourhoods. Against the backdrop of this interdependence between strategic location choice and the increasing demand power of knowledge-intensive workers, we examine which locations and thus which spaces are chosen in the Functional Urban Area of Munich and Freising and how this choice has changed over a 10-year period. We assume that, depending on the knowledge base of the firm, the location preferences will differ from each other. We try to elucidate this process of transformation by linking a multi-scalar perspective on firm locations with georeferenced data for each firm location. This relational approach bridges the functional location choice logic of multi-location multi-branch firms in the knowledge economy with spatial attributes at the neighbourhood level, which we use as a spatial interpretive background. The strong preference for easy access to public spaces, urban amenities and mixeduse areas are interrelated through multi-scalar change processes at various inter-scalar levels and thus may alter the urban scale and, eventually, the wider city-regional scale. The findings will enable local planning and real estate development strategies to reconcile the acute transformation needs of firm locations with integrative urban development in order to create added spatial value for the entire city.

摘要：

知识密集型选址决策遵循不同尺度的不同逻辑，以优化其跨空间的价值创造过程。然而，经济和社会的韧性和创新能力面临着去全球化、脱碳、人口和数字化的结构性挑战。与此同时，对知识密集型劳动力的需求不断增加。企业的区位选择面临着快速变化的市场力量。劳动力日益增长的需求方力量及其位置偏好迫使企业和城市重新思考空间和社区的使用和设计。在战略区位选择与知识密集型工人日益增长的需求力之间相互依赖的背景下，我们研究了慕尼黑和弗赖辛的城市功能区选择了哪些位置以及哪些空间，以及这种选择在 10 年来发生了怎样的变化。我们假设，根据公司的知识基础，位置偏好会彼此不同。我们试图通过将公司位置的多标量视角与每个公司位置的地理参考数据联系起来来阐明这一转变过程。这种关系方法将知识经济中多地点多分支机构企业的功能位置选择逻辑与邻里层面的空间属性联系起来，我们将其用作空间解释背景。对轻松进入公共空间的强烈偏好，城市便利设施和混合用途区域通过不同尺度间水平的多尺度变化过程相互关联，因此可能改变城市规模，并最终改变更广泛的城市区域规模。研究结果将使地方规划和房地产开发战略能够协调企业地点的迫切转型需求与城市综合发展，从而为整个城市创造附加的空间价值。