ABSTRACT
North America is rich and deep in lessons, best practices and benchmarks for informing the needed new-practice of regional and urban planning in the new context of the global knowledge economy and network society. For our purposes, Canada and the United States comprise our operational definition of North America. For digital development discussion, Mexico is included in “Latin America” (Economist Intelligence Unit 2005). We selectively reference here some of the context faced by Canada and the United States, with full recognition of the limitations of this approach. Our goal here merely is to suggest the diversity and similarity of planning responses by policy-makers and business actors, among many other local stakeholders from the major technologyeconomic regions of the global knowledge economy and network society.
