Shares the first outcomes of international and multidisciplinary research projects on innovative workplaces

Introduces an original investigative methodology

Presents multiple informative case studies

Discusses policy and planning tools to address challenges

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 Pajevi¿, Richard Shearmur.- 10. The urbanity of coworking spaces in France: The case of the Loire Valley Region. Divya Leducq, Christophe Demazière.- 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.