River of Traffic: The Spatial Fragmentation of US Ports

Potter, Cuz

doi:10.1080/00343404.2013.827334

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“…This is due to the fact, as noted above, that containerized cargo-the objective of most port expansion projects and for which there is the greatest port competition-is "discretionary" and not tied to any particular geographic location. With containers, and the goods within, destined for immediate transport off the terminal directly to railheads or distribution centers, the economic benefits of the port are felt far into the hinterland (Potter, 2015). This historic trend in the port-city relationship can make it more difficult to garner support for expensive publicly funded infrastructure projects if the "local pain" (McCalla, 1999)-which also includes pollution, road construction, and congestion-is not compensated for by local gain.…”

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

Jaffee

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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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 strategy requires sizable public investments in port infrastructure. In order to justify and convince the public and political officials of the wisdom of such investments, port officials commission economic impact studies. These are designed to demonstrate how the public investments will pay off in terms of economic development. This paper will critically examine this feature of the urban development strategy and its role in advancing a particular neoliberal development agenda. The analysis is placed in the larger context of actual existing neoliberalism, the shifting economic prospects of cities and regions, the rise of logistics and transportation, and inter-port competition for containerized cargo.

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Section: Economic Impact Studiesmentioning

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

Jaffee

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…As a result, a number of world-leading maritime service clusters have developed in locations such as London, New York, the Netherlands, and Norway, which are "leaders" in the global maritime service network (De Langen, 2002;Doloreux et al, 2016;Jacobs et al, 2011;Pinto et al, 2015). At the regional scale, due to port congestion, land constraints, improved collection and distribution systems, and inland terminal construction, some maritime service activities that were originally concentrated around hub ports have begun to disperse and selectively reconcentrate in the hinterland, especially low value-added activities (Bowen, 2008;Cheung et al, 2003;Fujita & Krugman, 2004;Notteboom & Rodrigue, 2005;Potter, 2015;Theys et al, 2008;Van den Heuvel et al, 2013;Wang & Cheng, 2010). In addition, since the early 1970s, considerable attention has been given to the location of maritime services in cities (Griggs, 1970;Wong, 1982).…”

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Location and spatial dynamics of maritime services: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta, China

Ziran

2021

Growth and Change

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The evolution of the spatial structure of maritime services is a geographical phenomenon closely associated with regional port economic development. However, the spatial and temporal characteristics of maritime services are still not fully understood, especially in emerging market countries and regions. The goal of this study was to reveal the regional-scale location and spatial dynamic characteristics of maritime services and their influencing factors. Specifically, using value chain perspectives, integrating both qualitative and quantitative approaches, we develop a database of maritime service enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Our empirical results show that maritime services and their various value chain segments display significant spatial agglomeration closely related to the scale of port development. Hub ports and large port cities are the main areas of concentrated maritime services. Moreover, during the spatial reconstruction of regional maritime services, non-port and small port cities have gradually become important locations for agent maritime services (e.g., shipping agencies, freight forwarding) and traditional maritime services (e.g., port operators, warehouse and storage), dispersing and reconcentrating services in the hinterland. Finally, we analyze the influences of the hinterland logistics center, regional comprehensive transportation network, information communication technology, industrial agglomeration

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La dynamique spatiale des activités logistiques dans les aires urbaines françaises

Guerrero¹,

Proulhac²

2016

cybergeo

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The number and intensity of freight flows have increased over the last decades, in a context of fast integration of the world economy and deep transformation of production and distribution systems. In France, to cope with this new complexity, many logistics activities have been created across the country and have since concentrated in largest urban areas. Within them, new locations become increasingly suburban, in order to take advantage of the availability of large parcels and where land prices are cheaper. But the suburbanization dynamic doesn't follow a stable and predictable path. What interpretation is to be given to this heterogeneity: is it the same phenomenon just with a time lag of one or several decades or does it involve different location strategies? A fine analysis of suburbanization paths, based on building permits data, is carried out in this paper. It provides some elements necessary to the understanding of suburbanization dynamics. It shows that the most frequent suburbanization pattern is characterized by an initial sprawl followed by the emergence of a few suburban poles. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis put forward by recent works of an increasing importance of agglomeration economies in the fields of logistics and distribution.Au cours des dernières décennies, les flux de marchandises se sont multipliés et intensifiés, dans un contexte de mondialisation accélérée et de profonde transformation des systèmes productifs et de distribution. En France, pour faire face à cette nouvelle complexité, un grand nombre d'activités logistiques ont été créées, d'abord sur l'ensemble du territoire, puis de manière plus sélective. Les centres au sommet de la hiérarchie urbaine, dont la vocation de redistribution vers le reste du territoire a été renforcée au fil des trois dernières décennies, accueillent désormais une part grandissante de ces implantations. Au sein de ces grandes aires urbaines, les nouvelles implantations logistiques se font de plus en plus loin des centres, attirées notamment par une plus grande disponibilité foncière et par des loyers modérés. Mais cette dynamique de périurbanisation logistique n'est pas portée par une trajectoire stable : au contraire, les rythmes et les périodes de périurbanisation peuvent être très différentes d'une aire urbaine à l'autre. Comment interpréter cette hétérogénéité dans les formes de périurbanisation : avons-nous affaire à un simple décalage du phénomène dans le temps ou bien est-il possible d'envisager différentes stratégies d'implantation des activités logistiques ? L'analyse fine des trajectoires de périurbanisation logistique des aires urbaines, permise par l'exploitation de données sur les permis de construire, apporte quelques éléments de compréhension des dynamiques à l'oeuvre. Elle suggère que, dans les implantations périurbaines les plus récentes, outre les stratégies d'aménagement des acteurs publics et privés, les choix de localisation pourraient également être guidés par le souci de bénéficier des économies d'agglomération des ...

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River of Traffic: The Spatial Fragmentation of US Ports

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

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

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

Location and spatial dynamics of maritime services: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta, China

La dynamique spatiale des activités logistiques dans les aires urbaines françaises

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