Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

Addie, Jean‐Paul D.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.05.006

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“…In our empirical framework, we initially opted to aggregate these airports into 'city nodes', but these findings suggest that a more nuanced reading of connectivity in a city-regional context would have been warranted. This is, of course, in line with Addie's (2014) coining of the concept of aero-regionalism to enhance and reshape our understanding of the relations between aviation infrastructures and their surrounding regional spaces.…”

Section: Spatiotemporal Variations Of the Saan Multilayered Structuresupporting

confidence: 64%

“…With more refined and multiplex data, an improvement in these aspects would provide a more accurate understanding of the structural evolution in terms of development strategies and policies for cities and the air transport industry. And finally, our all-too-straightforward definition of what constitutes a node could be conceptually enriched by triangulating it with research on the diversity of the meaning of airport-cities and airport-regions as per Addie (2014) and Derudder et al (2010).…”

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The evolving structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network through the lens of complex networks, 1979–2012

Dai

Derudder

Liu

2018

Journal of Transport Geography

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A B S T R A C TThis paper presents a novel approach to investigating and understanding the evolving structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network (SAAN) over the period 1979-2012. Our approach captures the main topological and spatial changes from a complex network perspective. We find that the SAAN combines a relatively stable topological structure with a changing multilayered geographical structure. Statistical analysis indicates that the SAAN is a scale-free network with an increasing number of hub cities and has been characterized by small-world properties since 1996. Furthermore, the SAAN exhibits a recently intensified disassortative mixing pattern, suggesting an increasing dependence of small cities on hub-and-spoke configuration for better accessibility. A decomposition analysis is used to disaggregate the SAAN into a hierarchical core-bridge-periphery structure. The core layer consists of capital cities, the most economic vibrant secondary cities, and tourist destinations. This core layer is also densely interconnected with its center of gravity moving towards the north. The periphery layer, comprised of cities in remote areas, sustains a low significance with declining internal connectivity despite a rising number of cities being connected. The bridge layer lies in between both extremes, and is characterized by a high volatility over time. The connections and passengers between different layers increase, especially those between core and bridge after 1996. In our discussion, we trace these changes back to a series of socio-economic and politico-institutional dynamics in Southeast Asia.

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Section: Spatiotemporal Variations Of the Saan Multilayered Structuresupporting

confidence: 64%

Section: Discussionmentioning

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The evolving structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network through the lens of complex networks, 1979–2012

Dai

Derudder

Liu

2018

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Suburban space and scale, then, do not register in the same way as in the urban core. Consequently, the physical presence of ‘infrastructures in suburbs’ – and the imperatives of global competitiveness guiding their planning, operation and governance – have a significant impact on the lived experience, development trajectories and spatial imaginaries of the suburbs that house them (see Addie for a discussion of this issue in relation to global airports). The suburbanisation of global infrastructures can open economic development opportunities on the urban fringe, leading suburban municipalities to reframe their local planning decisions and developmental agendas (Cidell ).…”

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Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Addie

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanising world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amid the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of suburban infrastructure. I eschew concerns with definitional bounding to focus analytical attention on the relations between ‘the suburban’ (broadly considered) and multiple hard and soft infrastructures. These relations are captured in two ‘three‐dimensional’ dialectical triads: the first unpacks the modalities of infrastructure in, for and of suburbs; the second discloses the political economic processes (suburbanisation), lived experience (suburbanism) and dynamics of mediation internalised by particular suburban infrastructures. Bringing these conceptual frames together constructs a nine‐cell matrix that: (1) functions as a heuristic device providing conceptual clarity when discussing the suburbanity of infrastructures; (2) promotes comparative analysis across diverse global suburban contexts; and (3) develops tools to foreground the dialectical relations internalised in the concrete sociospatial modalities of suburban infrastructure. The paper shows that suburban infrastructure can only ever be partially suburban as a result of its co‐constituted and over‐determined production. I conclude by suggesting how the proposed approach may be mobilised to reimagine and reclaim suburban infrastructure as a crucial context and vital mechanism underpinning a progressive polycentric suburban spatial polity.

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“…In many locales, urban managers hold these infrastructural developments in high esteem, valorizing them for their role in speedily connecting cities with markets and production sites across the world. As Addie (: 87) writes, airports ‘function as key interfaces through which global networks are moored in place and the metropolises in which they are located are both deeply integrated with, and affected by, the recalibrated propinquity engendered by air travel’. Insofar as these artefacts bring the world closer to cities, scholars also tend to regard them as instruments that accelerate urban metabolisms, by eradicating friction and enabling space–time convergence to take place where they are hosted (Bowen, ).…”

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Infrastructure's Expenditures: Changi Airport, Food Cargo and Capital's Technosphere

Lin¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urban research has long maintained that an unwavering link exists between urbanization and infrastructures, with the latter serving as structuring devices that give material and discursive shape to a city's socio‐ecological composition. But, while infrastructures’ mediative power and consequent ecological effects are well established, present scholarship tends to associate them with only a specific set of metabolisms—namely, those tied to urban (re)production—at the expense of wider capitalist projects that may exceed discrete urbanisms. Complexifying this view, this article posits that infrastructures can constitute larger systems and frameworks that help capital achieve networked forms of accumulation. Specifically, it follows recent theorizations on the technosphere—artificialized environments of interacting systems—to demonstrate how infrastructures help drive particular dispositions and modes of production and consumption beyond cities. Through documentary analyses and interviews with industry players, the article uses the emergent food cargo business at Singapore's Changi Airport as an empirical case to exemplify the enfolding of one such technosphere through infrastructures. It shows how paying heed to these technospheric formations exposes hidden expenditures—in this instance, of land, energy and labour—that not only underpin a global regime of (food) circulation, but also result in additional socio‐ecological costs often omitted in urban research.

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Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

Cited by 30 publications

References 61 publications

The evolving structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network through the lens of complex networks, 1979–2012

The evolving structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network through the lens of complex networks, 1979–2012

Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Infrastructure's Expenditures: Changi Airport, Food Cargo and Capital's Technosphere

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