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 th...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.展开更多
文摘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.