Changing roles of cities as gateways in corridors for flows in city networks.

What is it about?

This article considers the conditions leading to a need for changing understanding of 'gateway' and 'corridor' terminologies as metaphors for city relations in contemporary globalization.

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Why is it important?

The article raises questions about the relevance of strategic transportation corridors alone as an instrument for diverting market-led agglomeration. The complexity of scalar issues relating to globalizing European urban spaces suggests three paradoxes: o Paradox 1 - The reciprocity between APS concentration in ‘global gateway’ cities and the emergence of functional polycentricity produced by business network extension at a sub-global scale. o Paradox 2 - The reciprocity between regional polycentricity and the emergence of complex material flow spaces. o Paradox 3 - The divergence between hinterland governance and emergent city hinterworld spaces.

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