New Territorial Tendencies. The Airport as a Regional Centrality in a Glocal Context

Publications: Book / Anthology / Thesis / ReportPh.D. thesis

Abstract

In the contemporary territorial context, infrastructural networks of mobility and transport have changed social behaviours and urban structures in a relevant way. Air mobility, along with airport infrastructure, is key in the positioning of city-regions in the global network. In this sense, the airport has become, in the last few decades, an urban element capable of structuring the city-region on a local scale.
This research tries to determine the key aspects of this infrastructure and its surrounding territory based on the analysis of ten case studies that are located in different contexts (geographical, territorial-urban and socioeconomic) and linked to airports. This study brings to light the importance and capacity that an airport can have not only in the positioning of the region on a global level but also in the implementation of its local structure.
Moreover, these ten case studies have underscored the qualities that can be implemented in an airport transport hub with the aim of encouraging its evolution towards an airport cluster. Consequently, this new infrastructure acquires the implicit qualities of an urban entity that is identified as an NAC (Neo-tertiary Airport Cluster).
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages376
Publication statusUnpublished - 22 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventDoctoral Thesis Defense - Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Duration: 22 Feb 2017 → …

Other

OtherDoctoral Thesis Defense
LocationAccademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityMendrisio
Period22/02/2017 → …

Keywords

  • city-region
  • architecture
  • airport
  • cluster
  • neo-tertiary
  • glocal

Artistic research

  • No

Cite this