A theoretical foundation for investigating the spatial economic attributes of airport-centric developments
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https://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2021-0030Keywords
airport-centric development, growth pole theory, conceptual foundation, spatial economic attributesAbstract
The paper establishes a conceptual foundation for analysing airports and surrounds; and employs it to identify a theory that is most suitable for investigating spatial economic forces that drive airport-centric developments. In the background of globalisation, the classical location theories, regional science, growth pole theory and new economic geography are scrutinised against their relational interpretation of the concepts of space, proximity, firm, scale and pattern. Given that it portrays a relational perspective of the aforesaid concepts, the paper proposes that while acknowledging the relevancy of other theories, the growth pole theory is suitable to be the main framework for analysing airport-centric developments.
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