The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation

Fatima Tassadiq, Jonathan Silver, Yannis Kallianos and Prince K Guma
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Fatima Tassadiq: The University of Sheffield, UK
Jonathan Silver: The University of Sheffield, UK
Yannis Kallianos: The University of Sheffield, UK
Prince K Guma: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Urban Studies, 2025, vol. 62, issue 10, 1961-1984

Abstract: Corridors entail and promote pervasive logics of (dis)connectivity. Over the years, corridors have become increasingly predominant across a range of spaces, places and territories. Their prevalence reflects a critical global shift in planning approaches, urban-regional governance, investment trends, circulation regimes and broader urbanisation processes. This article engages with this paradigm shift to critically interrogate the term corridor and its various usages and dynamics, considering its analytical purchase and socio-spatial dynamic for urban studies. We provide a genealogical reading of the term corridor, examining its usage and conceptualisation in different contexts, to ask what these different interpretations and analytical functions of the corridor can offer to urban studies today. Through this critical review, we assert that the meaning and usage of corridors are permeated by heterogeneity and multiplicity that define their current dynamic. This leads us to problematise their linear delineations across space (and time). Thereafter, we offer a typology of different corridors, which helps us to address its analytical valence for urban studies and social science. We conclude by setting out four research directions in scholarship that offer a platform to develop further research imperatives and debates in relation to the growing urban corridorisation and its effects on urbanities, cities and everyday life.

Keywords: agglomeration/urbanisation; built environment; development; globalisation; infrastructure; é›†è š/城市化; å»ºæˆ çŽ¯å¢ƒ; å ‘å±•; å…¨ç ƒåŒ–; 基础设施 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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