“One package at a time: the distributive world city”

Negrey, Cynthia; Osgood, Jeffery L.; Goetzke, Frank

doi:10.4324/9781315684871-26

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“…Over the past two decades, efforts to attract cargo traffic and value-added logistics activities have played an increasingly pronounced role in entrepreneurial growth strategies at the local, regional and national scales. Yet, with only a few exceptions (Negrey et al, 2011;Jaffee, 2015;Wachsmuth, 2017), this development has received little attention in urban scholarship. This article probes the relationship between these two phenomena--the increasing substitutability of places within corporate supply chains and the intensification of competition among localities for commodity flows--through a multisited study of the container-shipping industry.…”

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Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network

Danyluk¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines an emerging form of interspatial competition premised on attracting cargo traffic and value‐added logistics activities. Against the backdrop of economic globalization and the revolution in logistics, place‐based actors are increasingly vying to insert their localities into transnational supply chains. I explore the causes, conditions and consequences of this burgeoning growth strategy through a study of the dynamics surrounding the expansion of the Panama Canal, opened to shipping traffic in June 2016, and the consequent battle among North American ports to attract a new generation of oversized container vessels. The spatial practices of mobile actors in the logistics industry, I argue, represent the leading edge of capitalism's tendency to render places interchangeable—a condition I call fungible space. The abstract logic of spatial substitution, however, can never fully escape the concrete qualities of particular places, which form the very conditions of interchangeability itself. This dialectic of spatial fungibility and geographic specificity has intensified rivalries for volatile commodity flows and made logistics‐oriented development a particularly risky growth strategy for cities. What is at stake in these speculative ventures is the welfare of vulnerable communities and workers, who disproportionately bear the costs and risks of supply‐chain volatility.

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Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network

Danyluk¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Researchers in transportation geography have considered the implications of developments in goods movement over the last half century (Hesse and Rodrigue, 2004;McCalla et al, 2004;Rodrigue and Notteboom, 2009). Along with urban scholars, transport geographers have examined the often uneasy ways in which the movement of freight interacts with its local or regional context, and how these relationships are changing in light of trends like containerization, transshipment, and waterfront redevelopment (Hesse, 2010;Hoyle, 2000;Negrey et al, 2011;Vormann, 2015). Another reference point for critical logistics scholarship is the mobilities paradigm, an interdisciplinary approach that challenges the assumptions of conventional research that would take static, fixed entities as its objects (Hannam et al, 2006;Sheller and Urry, 2006).…”

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Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics

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Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation involved in planning and managing flows of innumerable kinds. In this introductory essay, we take stock of the ascendancy and proliferation of logistics, proposing a critical engagement with the field. We argue that logistics is not limited to the management of supply chains, military or corporate. Rather, it is better understood as a calculative logic and spatial practice of circulation that is at the fore of the reorganization of capitalism and war. Viewed from this perspective, the rise of logistics has transformed not only the physical movement of materials but also the very rationality by which space is organized. It has remade economic and military space according to a universalizing logic of abstract flow, exacerbating existing patterns of uneven geographical development. Drawing on the articles that make up this themed issue, we propose that a critical approach to logistics is characterized by three core commitments: (1) a rejection of the field's self-depiction as an apolitical science of management, along with a commitment to highlighting the relations of power and acts of violence that underpin it; (2) an 2 interest in exposing the flaws, irrationalities, and vulnerabilities of logistical regimes; and (3) an orientation toward contestation and struggle within logistical networks.

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“…These agglomerations of DCs emerged as inland hubs, gathering together warehousing, transshipment, trucking, and air freight, often conceived of as freight clusters (Chhetri, Butcher, & Corbitt, ; Gouvernal, Lavaux‐Letilleul, & Slack, ; Hesse, ; Sheffi, ; Van den Heuvel, Langen, Donselaar, & Fransoo, ). Prominent cases have emerged for example in the Inland Empire in Southern California or in the Midwest of the U.S., such as Louisville, Kentucky, which Negrey, Osgood, and Goetzke () called the “distributive world city”; in the British midlands halfway to London and in the North; in the Netherlands or in Flanders, Belgium. From these inland hubs, millions of customers can be reached within a 4–5 hour‐long truck drive.…”

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Logistics: Situating flows in a spatial context

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2020

Geography Compass

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The origins of logistics lie in military and imperial methods of expansion and control of geographical space. It is principally associated with the more recent contexts of business management and engineering. Logistics systems are now the conveyor belts of the global system of trade, commerce and production, and its associated techniques and strategies aim at optimizing flows and throughput within discrete units (such as firms), in economic networks and across geographical space. Because flows are important determinants for the development of places, logistics has the power to structure territories. Therefore, it has raised considerable interest in the field of geography, not only with regard to cities and their dense agglomeration of people, buildings, and infrastructure but also in geopolitical terms as it fosters the exploration, control, and surveillance of areas. The paper presents a critical account of logistics operations and their relevance for the making (and unmaking) of territories, related policy dimensions, and future challenges for research.

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“One package at a time: the distributive world city”

Cited by 6 publications

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Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network

Fungible Space: Competition and Volatility in the Global Logistics Network

Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics

Logistics: Situating flows in a spatial context

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