2018
DOI: 10.1177/2399654418771134
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Neoliberal urbanism as ‘Strategic Coupling’ to global chains: Port infrastructure and the role of economic impact studies

Abstract: This paper identifies and delineates a variant of neoliberal urbanism that grounds city-region economic development on the ability to gain financial and public support for large-scale infrastructure projects advancing particular forms of capital accumulation. More specifically, the focus is on the effort of city-regions to strategically exploit and expand geographic and physical assets to capture economic benefits associated with global value chains through the expansion of maritime ports. This development str… Show more

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“…The new rise of services hubs has raised the interest of urban‐regional development policy‐makers to add logistics and physical distribution activities to their portfolio (Bowen & Leinbach, ; Ferrari, Merk, Botasso, Conti, & Tei, ; Hesse, ; Musso, Benacchio, & Ferrari, ). Now, local entities seek to actively participate in the growing circulatory economy, by fostering logistics investments and the required improvements in infrastructure (Danyluk, ; Hesse, ; Jaffee, ; Levelt, ; Ziadah, ). This policy and governance dimension of logistics and freight distribution has gained more interest recently, as the restructuring of the industry has helped in mobilizing the related growth dynamics away from the old gateways, thus creating new logistics centers and secondary hubs.…”
Section: Logistics In Spatial Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The new rise of services hubs has raised the interest of urban‐regional development policy‐makers to add logistics and physical distribution activities to their portfolio (Bowen & Leinbach, ; Ferrari, Merk, Botasso, Conti, & Tei, ; Hesse, ; Musso, Benacchio, & Ferrari, ). Now, local entities seek to actively participate in the growing circulatory economy, by fostering logistics investments and the required improvements in infrastructure (Danyluk, ; Hesse, ; Jaffee, ; Levelt, ; Ziadah, ). This policy and governance dimension of logistics and freight distribution has gained more interest recently, as the restructuring of the industry has helped in mobilizing the related growth dynamics away from the old gateways, thus creating new logistics centers and secondary hubs.…”
Section: Logistics In Spatial Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this context, policies that promote logistics as a means of development are notably contested. They are therefore increasingly accompanied by a discourse of modernity, growth, and prosperity (Danyluk, ; De Lara, ; Jaffee, , ). Because of the apparent benefits promised by logistics acquisitions, governments and local communities are tempted to sell themselves as hubs, for example by highlighting their overall centrality even in cases where regions are in fact peripheral—sometimes it fits with the demand for placing logistics facilities.…”
Section: Applying a Critical Lens—societal Context And The Dark Side mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Logistics‐driven development is an economy of appearances (Tsing, 2005). Regional container port competition is “a zero‐sum game” (Jaffee, 2019); there are not enough Neo‐Panamax ships to realize the aspirations of all regional ports. Investments in projects like JHDP are justified through cost–benefit calculations that turn on projections.…”
Section: Case Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 1970, such activities could often be amateurish and low budget; accepted as part of the armoury of measures used to aid urban and regional development, but often undertaken without clearly‐defined aims and liable to be assigned to non‐specialists in administrative departments felt to have time on their hands (Gold ). By 1990, the dramatic changes experienced by formerly prosperous industrial cities and the advent of neoliberal urbanism – broadly understood as a form of urbanism, subordinated to the dictates of market economics, ‘where urban powers attempt to position their cities in higher positions of the hierarchical global urban network in which competitiveness is the key” (Vives Miró , p. 2; cited in Jaffee , p. 120). The agendas derived from this approach would revalorise the need for active promotion and marketing as a high‐profile response to post‐industrial decline and to the fact that ‘cities around the world compete in a crowded global market’ (Short & Kim , p. 55).…”
Section: Antecedentsmentioning
confidence: 99%