Industrial Infrastructure

Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22018522
AutoresElke Beyer (0000-0001-5601-897X, Technische Universität Berlin), Lucas-Andrés Elsner (0000-0001-5085-9612, Technische Universität Berlin), Anke Hagemann (0000-0002-9586-6266, Technische Universität Berlin), Philipp Misselwitz (0000-0001-5711-7873, Technische Universität Berlin)
Ano2021
Volume6
Fascículo3
Páginas444-463
Data de publicação2021-09-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
EditoraCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v6i3.4211
OpenAlexW3199790563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas48

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

Business · Civil engineering · Commodity · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Global city · Metropolitan area · Provisioning · Regional science · Spatial planning · Telecommunications · Urban planning · China's Global Influence and Migration · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Water Governance and Infrastructure