Commodity Flows and Urban Spaces. An Introduction.

Beyer, Elke; Hagemann, Anke; Misselwitz, Philipp

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“…However, it also maintains the necessary flexibility to incorporate locally specific measures. Moreover, it takes into account the economic reality and fierce competition of such areas in global production networks (Beyer et al, 2020; and opts for inter-municipal and regional cooperation (Veres-Homm et al, 2019) in order to avoid a municipal race-to-the-bottom and left-behind places (Dierwechter, 2021;Pike et al, 2023).…”

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“…Recent research on global economic networks has emphasised the importance of examining both the regional context of regulatory frameworks and planning governance, as well as the trans-local interrelations between geographically distant industry locations vying for positions within global production networks (Beyer et al, 2020;Suwala, 2021). The critical role played by industrial infrastructure, such as industrial zones that meet the environmental standards of transnational investors and buyers, and the role of multiple stakeholders in providing such infrastructure are particularly noteworthy .…”

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Place-Based Climate-Proofing of Commercial and Industrial Areas: Inventory and Guidelines From a Regional Planning Perspective

Schwappach,

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Suwala

2023

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In spite of all efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, climate change has become a new reality that requires regional planning to provide effective solutions. This article focuses on commercial and industrial areas (<em>Gewerbegebiete</em>), which are important but often overlooked spaces, by means of examples in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The article investigates whether and how regional planning can help these areas adapt to climate change. Three commercial and industrial areas in different spatial settings are examined, using an inventory of place-based measures, general standards, and regional networking of planning actors. This inventory is based on a backcasting analysis that compares normative future images of climate-adapted commercial and industrial areas with their current local situation. Spatially differentiated guidelines for the adaptation of commercial and industrial areas are then developed from a regional planning perspective by “climate-proofing” regional plans. These guidelines provide both place-based and general solutions for integrating and governing climate adaptation measures and standards into existing frameworks using a hands-on regional planning approach.

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Place-Based Climate-Proofing of Commercial and Industrial Areas: Inventory and Guidelines From a Regional Planning Perspective

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Beyer,

Suwala

2023

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“…Ce numéro propose de tisser des liens entre d'une part des approches sur la production contemporaine de l'espace urbain et d'autre part des travaux sur l'entrée de sociétés des Suds dans la consommation globalisée. En s'appuyant sur l'analyse de réseaux de production globaux (Global Production Networks) et en intégrant les apports de la géographie culturelle (Lemarchand 2011), les premières approches questionnent la production de l'espace urbain par les flux de marchandises et les réseaux de production transnationaux (Beyer et al 2020). Elles identifient de nouveaux champs, comme la prise en compte des infrastructures urbaines comme facteur de production spatiale, l'identification de moteurs discrets de la globalisation et soulignent la nécessité de dépasser les analyses circonscrites aux seuls espaces métropolitains.…”

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“…La production contemporaine de l'espace urbain est de plus en plus modelée par la circulation des individus, de l'information, de l'argent et des marchandises (Beyer et al 2020). Les lieux marchands, des plus évidents telles les rues commerciales de métropoles, aux moins visibles sur le radar de la mondialisation, tels des marchés périodiques ruraux, sont des terrains privilégiés pour analyser les circulations de marchandises, d'acteurs et de capitaux (fig.…”

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Circulations marchandes et mondialisation des pauvres : transformations sociales et spatiales vues des Suds

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Doron,

Racaud

2023

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À partir de lieux marchands marqués par l'informalité, lieux d'ancrage de la mondialisation des pauvres (Choplin et Pliez 2018) et/ou de lieux marchands à forte intensité capitalistique, ce numéro porte sur les transformations sociales et spatiales impulsées par les circulations de marchandises, d'acteurs et de capitaux, le long des itinéraires empruntés. Le dossier vise à documenter les effets des circulations marchandes sur la production de l'espace et sur le quotidien des acteurs, que ce soit en tant qu'opportunité économique ou de consommation.

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“…Interdisciplinary debates on infrastructures and commodity flows in cities have gained considerable momentum in recent years (for a more extensive review of the literature see Beyer et al, 2020). Scholars of architecture and planning, as well as urban geography, have developed relational perspectives on how urban fabric is produced and organised through infrastructures, and how infrastructural networks spatialise socioeconomic power relations (e.g., Graham & Marvin, 2001;McFarlane & Rutherford, 2008).…”

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Industrial Infrastructure: Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina

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Current development and re-development of industrial areas cannot be adequately understood without taking into account the organisational structures and logistics of commodity production on a planetary scale. Global production networks contribute not only to the reconfiguration of urban spatial and economic structures in many places, but they also give rise to novel transnational actor constellations, thus reconfiguring planning processes. This article explores such constellations and their urban outcomes by investigating two current cases of industrial development linked with multilateral transport-infrastructure provisioning in Ethiopia and Argentina. In both cases, international partners are involved, in particular with stakeholders based in China playing significant roles. In Mekelle, Ethiopia, we focus on the establishment of a commodity hub through the implementation of new industry parks for global garment production and road and rail connections to international seaports. In the Rosario metropolitan area in Argentina, major cargo rail and port facilities are under development to expand the country’s most important ports for soybean export. By mapping the physical architectures of the industrial and infrastructure complexes and their urban contexts and tracing the translocal actor constellations involved in infrastructure provisioning and operation, we analyse the spatial impacts of the projects as well as the related implications for planning governance. The article contributes to emergent scholarship and theorisations of urban infrastructure and global production networks, as well as policy mobility and the transnational constitution of planning knowledge and practices.

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Commodity Flows and Urban Spaces. An Introduction.

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Place-Based Climate-Proofing of Commercial and Industrial Areas: Inventory and Guidelines From a Regional Planning Perspective

Place-Based Climate-Proofing of Commercial and Industrial Areas: Inventory and Guidelines From a Regional Planning Perspective

Circulations marchandes et mondialisation des pauvres : transformations sociales et spatiales vues des Suds

Industrial Infrastructure: Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina

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