果冻影院

Research subject

Thesis title:听Metropolisation Processes in European Second-tier Cities

Primary supervisor:听Professor John Tomaney
Secondary supervisor:听Dr Filipa Wunderlich
Sponsor:听
Starting date:听September 2011
Projected completion date:听May 2016

This research project investigates whether second-tier urban regions in Europe have functional, spatial, socio-economic and institutional characteristics which differentiate them in meaningful ways from primate urban regions. Based on the argument that second-tier cities can particularly profit from integration at the urban region scale, the study then explores whether the specific features detected may provide them with a greater ability to pursue that goal.听

This study fills two important gaps, as we do not know what exactly differentiates second-tier urban regions regarding the aspects above, and in what ways those differences affect their integration processes. The study also contributes to reveal a new and still unexplored set of strategic options for second-tier cities, whose urgency is proportional to the extent to which they are neglected or hampered in their national urban systems. Indeed, at a moment when cities have turned into vast urban regions, when size, functional mass and diversity and city-regional governance have been argued as major drivers of economic development, and the European economic and policy climate favours strategies that work better with existing assets rather than adding new ones, integration is not only an ongoing territorial process but also a relevant strategic option for second-tier urban regions.听

The research proposes an original interpretative lens to understand them, namely the concept of metropolisation, whose appropriateness to read contemporary urbanisation modes may find a particularly compatible response in the features of second-tier urban regions. The study is applies a set of comparative research methods to three main cases studies: Porto, Portugal, Bristol, UK and Antwerp, Belgium.

Biography

I have graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Porto in 2001, with a final dissertation titled 鈥楾he Airport as a Contemporary Phenomenon鈥�, where I studied the spatial and social meaning of the airport as a paradigmatic urban typology of the 21st century. In 1999-2000 I spent a year at the Hochschule der K眉nste, Berlin, under the Erasmus program.

In 2009 I completed the Metropolis Masters degree in Barcelona, a joint program of the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya and CCCB. My research thesis was titled 鈥楾hree Tenses of Reality: a complex approach to the multi-scale geography of cities鈥�, and focused on the use of large-scale projects by mid-sized European cities as catalysts to detach from their immediate geography. The results of my research were presented in 2009 at a public session at the CCCB.

I have been a practising architect in Porto since 2001, and opened my own office in 2006, working in several projects (housing, urban design, retail, renovations, competitions), with some temporary adventures in graphic and furniture design, and BIM consulting. In 2007 I was a finalist of the T谩vora Award (Portuguese Order of Architects) with a proposal for a grand tour of European airports. In September 2011 I definitely switched from small to large scale and started doctoral research in Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Planning, sponsored by the FCT.

Between 2010 and 2012 I have been closely involved with the Cities for Recovery platform, a group of researchers dedicated to discuss the role of civic intervention in urban practices in times of economic and social unrest. With that group, I helped to shape several initiatives, such as the Global City 2.0 network, presented in Lisbon in April 2011 with Saskia Sassen and Jo茫o Ferr茫o as keynote speakers.

More recently, I have produced a report in collaboration with Foster + Partners about the reconciliation of heritage and urban growth in English historic cities. I have also conceived and edited a publication of short essays by PhD research students for the Bartlett School of Planning centenary in 2014. I am currently doing editorial assistance for an upcoming publication by the 果冻影院 Urban Laboratory. Since 2013-14 I have been involved in postgraduate teaching assistance at the Bartlett, both in undergraduate and postgraduate modules.听

Publications and other work

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Cardoso, R. (2015).听Cidades principais e secund谩rias na Europa: uma caracteriza莽茫o dos contrastes 脿 escala da regi茫o urbana [Primate and second-tier cities in Europe: a characterisation of contrasts at the urban region scale]. GOT, n.潞 7 (junho). Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territ贸rio, p. 85-109, <>
• Cardoso, R. and Meijers E. (...)听Contrasts between Primate and Second-tier Cities in Europe: a functional perspective. Currently under review for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
• Cardoso, R. (鈥�)听Localising extensive urbanisation: comparing the emergence of second-tier urban regions in Europe 1890-2011. Currently under review for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.听

Conference Proceedings

• 2013: 鈥楴ew identities of the extensive city: the case of European second-tier cities鈥�, in Fernandes J. R. et al. (eds.) Geography & Politics, Policies and Planning, pp. 289-302. CEGOT, Porto. .
• 2012: 鈥楻eading heterogeneous city-regions: perspectives on the urban region of Porto鈥� (abstract), in Networked Cities and Regions in Times of Fragmentation: Developing Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Places, pp. 31-32. Regional Studies Association, Seaford.

Non-Academic Publications

• 2014: 鈥業mprobable Cities鈥�, in Punkto Magazine 03: Online Archive.
• 2011: 鈥楶rotesto e Proposta: sobre o mercado do Bom Sucesso鈥� [Protest and Proposal: about the Bom Sucesso market], opinion piece in Publico, 2 June 2011
• 2004: 鈥楳aquetas e Modelos Virtuais no m茅todo de 脕lvaro Siza鈥� [Architectural Models and Virtual Models in the method of 脕lvaro Siza], CADProject 8, pp. 28-30
• 2000: 鈥榁iews on OMA鈥檚 Casa da M煤sica: further mental exercises鈥�, in ArchiNed, Dutch independent architectural website (010 Publishers), April 17, 2000.

Selected Conference Presentations

• 鈥楥omparing the emergence of second-tier urban regions in Europe: population patterns and urban change in Porto, Bristol and Antwerp鈥�, paper presented at the special session 鈥楽mall and mid-sized cities as drivers of growth鈥� (invited panellist). City Futures Conference, Paris, June 2014.
• 鈥楨uropean second-tier cities and the prospects of metropolisation: the case of Porto鈥� (with Evert J. Meijers, TU Delft), paper presented at the 9th European Urban and Regional Studies Conference, University of Sussex, July 2013.
• 鈥楴ew identities of the extensive city: the case of European second-tier cities鈥�, paper presented at the 1st CEGOT International Meeting, University of Porto, March 2013.
• 鈥楻eading heterogeneous city-regions: perspectives on the urban region of Porto鈥�, paper presented at the Regional Studies Association European Conference, Delft, May 2012.
• Co-organization and panel member of the 鈥楿rban civic movements in a global world鈥� conference, with Saskia Sassen and Jo茫o Ferr茫o as keynote speakers, Lisbon, April 2011.
• 2010: 鈥楽pace matters: fine-tuning the variable geometry of cities鈥�, paper presented at the CITTA 3rd Annual Conference on Planning Research, University of Porto, May 2010.