摘要
The metropolitan area has long been an important conceptual medium for issues in the study of innovation economics and ecological conservation.Much scholarship on ecological conservation represents a departure from the thought process that urban development is characterized by linear spatial expansion;innovation economists have re-identified contemporary urban development as innovative agglomeration,which generally challenges a fundamental understanding of urban studies.We call for a paradigm shift,proposing an eco-metropolis approach to contextualize ecological conservation in innovative agglomeration and discussing how the departure from spatial expansion to innovative agglomeration interacts with other issues like infrastructure.
