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The article seeks to show the relationships between two different approaches to urban development in information age: “knowledge cities” and “creative cities”, grounding these broad concepts around another construct: “place”. “Knowledge cities" is a term associated with Knowledge Based Development (KBD) and, more specifically, Knowledge Based Urban Development (KBUB). The term “creative cities” became popular after Richard Florida’s 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class. Finally, place is a piece of spatial information, frequently geographic in nature, but often used for describing the phenomenon of attachment, leading to concepts of character, authenticity, genius loci and sense of place. A bibliometric study was conducted on the subject terms (knowledge, cities, creative, place), identifying the main authors, sources, and documents on the theme. A science mapping exercise was then performed with the objective to show the structure of knowledge in the field, through cluster analyses made in the software VOS Viewer, identifying main streams of research and the connection between them. The cluster analysis also identified that “knowledge” and “urban planning” are central to the field, with supporting literature that can be divided in three broadly defined related themes: “innovation and creativity”, “economy and entrepreneurship”, and “people and place”. Limitations to this piece of research and future contributions are identified.