Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
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Airplanes are important modes of transportation in the 21st Century. For that reason, airports are seen as potential centers of economic development. Although developments until recently have been spontaneous and haphazard, real estate agents, airports and governments are targeting on airport areas as economic centers of development. Governmental planners increasingly aim to learn from foreign successful examples, try to copy and paste locally. The question is if and to what extent this kind of institutional learning between regions is successful or not. Therefore, we analyze cases of interregional learning in airport city development. We found that that consulting mainly focuses on cognitive and social learning; the more complex institutional learning is often underestimated in interregional learning. Furthermore, conditions point out the importance of loose models, broad coalitions and adjustment to local circumstances.
