Abstract
The urban planning, an essential paradigm has been the facilitator for shaping cities and recovering economic damage caused after the Second World War in Europe. At the same time, Asian cities were struggling to come out of the shock of colonialism and realize the urgent need of regulating cities. The conceptual frames adopted in both contexts were distinct and experimental. This diversity of evolution towards urbanization for economic recovery creates an urge to determine urban growth of Europe and Asia by interpreting planning components that have played a major role in shaping their cities. In order to understand the approach of economic growth and its impact on spatial development, it also becomes important to deconstruct trends, context, ideology and mechanism while forming planning components. This manifests the transformation process of traditional society into modern and global societies. The impact of one such adopted factors for economic and spatial rejuvenation has been technological innovation. Technological innovation is important for economic and spatial rejuvenation. Innovation districts from the last decades around university towns offer interesting examples. Planning directs the interplay between economic and urban development in these innovation districts that appear in particular regions with economic benefits as a result of incentives to attract multinational industries in innovation centres, research parks, universities, bio incubator assets, etc. The inclination of the OECED towards developing entrepreneurship and innovation to harness a boost in growth requires sustainable living conditions. This research paper aims to address, ‘how innovation or knowledge centres affected development policies and helped cities to become a high-tech region?’ it becomes important to investigate economic policies of cities that try to attract such activities, the logic of the location of centres and functioning of supporting economic activities and indirect impact on other sectors and services of cities due to new intellectual class and spatial changes (health, education, living environment, etc.). The case studies (Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Ho Chi Minh City (Viet Nam)) are explored in-depth to position Pune (India) in terms of the planning components of innovation. The final product of this research is a policy guideline suggestions for different sectors including economy, mobility, knowledge, environment, etc. that would create a feasible ecosystem.
