Conference report: From airport city to airport region? The 1st International Colloquium on Airports and Spatial Development, Karlsruhe, 2009

摘要

Airports are currently undergoing a process of functional and spatial transformation from infrastructural nodes to multifunctional, diverse arrangements. However, while noise and security constraints are acknowledged spatial impacts of airports, the results of the steadily increasing development in airport regions and their consequences for planning policy are under-researched. Whether this wider development is labelled 'non-aviation' (Jarach, 2001), 'concession' (Zhang and Zhang, 2003) or simply 'commercial' (Wolf, 2003), many airports have been developing specific expansion strategies, which use the attractiveness of the airport as a real estate development location. Airports themselves tend to label this strategy as 'Airport City' - an expression coined in an entrepreneurial analysis of the subject undertaken by Giiller and Guellcr (2001) for the Airport Regions Conference.