Willem Salet, , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Integrative urban projects (assigned to theme
In European regions, new polycentric patterns of urbanisation are arising under the conditions of the network society. The emerging nodes of centrality usually are characterised by high grades of specialisation and interconnectivity to external networks. There is a tendency into a new differentiation of economic spaces. Both the recently established urban nodes (out of town, usually near to airports or at crossings of highways) and the historical inner city urban condensations tend to specialisation. The Lefebvrian question is how the urban transformation under conditions of the network society may produce new urban spaces instead of pure economic spaces in urban networks. The author discusses the results of comparative research into the decision making of large scaled projects in a number of metropolitan regions.
submitted 2005-04-27 16:54:56.250
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