What is it about?
This article considers the conditions leading to a need for changing understanding of 'gateway' and 'corridor' terminologies as metaphors for city relations in contemporary globalization.
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Why is it important?
The article raises questions about the relevance of strategic transportation corridors alone as an instrument for diverting market-led agglomeration. The complexity of scalar issues relating to globalizing European urban spaces suggests three paradoxes: o Paradox 1 - The reciprocity between APS concentration in ‘global gateway’ cities and the emergence of functional polycentricity produced by business network extension at a sub-global scale. o Paradox 2 - The reciprocity between regional polycentricity and the emergence of complex material flow spaces. o Paradox 3 - The divergence between hinterland governance and emergent city hinterworld spaces.
Perspectives
The analysis indicates that premises underpinning key European policy instruments greatly over-simplify the relational dynamics currently associated with the changing roles and relations of cities in global networks.
Professor Kathy Pain
University of Reading
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This page is a summary of: ‘New Worlds’ for ‘Old’? Twenty-First-Century Gateways and Corridors: Reflections on a European Spatial Perspective, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, December 2010, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.01005.x.
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