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From The “Smart City” To The “Smart Metropolis”? Building Resilience In The Urban Periphery, Stefano De Falco, Margarita Angelidou, Jean-Paul Addie
From The “Smart City” To The “Smart Metropolis”? Building Resilience In The Urban Periphery, Stefano De Falco, Margarita Angelidou, Jean-Paul Addie
USI Publications
The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of “urban intelligence” to enhance the resiliency of metropolitan areas. As such, we focus on an under-researched dimension of smart city urbanism: its application in peripheral urban areas. The paper introduces a threefold typology of: (a) geographic (spatial); (b) hard …
Flying High (In The Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing The Role Of Airports In Global City-Regions Through “Aero-Regionalism”, Jean-Paul Addie
Flying High (In The Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing The Role Of Airports In Global City-Regions Through “Aero-Regionalism”, Jean-Paul Addie
USI Publications
Airports are key catalysts for urban growth and economic development in an era of global urbanization. In addition to their global economic functions, the multiscalar connectivity and localized impacts of air transport infrastructure place them at the heart of city-regional politics and planning. Yet the relations between global air transport, economic development and city-regionalism remain under-theorized. This paper introduces the concept of aero-regionalism to explore the relationality/territoriality dialectic and mechanisms of state territorialization unfurling at the nexus of globalization, air transport, city-regionalism and air transport. I provide a relational geographic comparison of the impact of varying local institutional arrangements and …