《“Exploded urbanism”: Processes of peri-urban formation in Romania》

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作者
Norbert Petrovici;Florin Poenaru;Codruța Mare
来源
CITIES,Vol.170,Issue1,Article 104218
语言
英文
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作者单位
Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;University of Bucharest, School of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania;Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;University of Bucharest, School of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania;Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
摘要
In this article we suggest that the process of peri-urban formation is a case of “exploded urbanism” – a situation in which urban features fly like shrapnel from the urban core to the surrounding areas in unexpected ways that generate sui generis effects. In doing so, we re-conceptualize peri-urbanization away from the urban-rural continuum towards a scalar understanding and we move away from city-centered approaches in urban studies without succumbing, however, to the lure of the recent paradigm of “planetarization”. By offering a modelling of the political economic forces at work in the peri-urban development in Romania in the past decades we classify the dynamics of peri-urbanization based on the dominant economic activities in the core cities. We do so by using OLS and spatial regression reported under the semblance of analysis of covariance. We discover that economic activity in core cities and the dynamics of the labor force are key elements in peri-urban transformations which bespeak the driving force of the city for space and place making processes.