Plant Closures in Urban Areas

Towards a Local Policy Response

Bibliographic Data

ID10860374
AuthorsH D Watts (University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume28
Issue5
Pages803-817
Publication date1991-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420989120080941
OpenAlexW2132215948
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

This paper focuses upon large plant closures by multi-locational firms in urban areas. It argues that it is useful to disaggregate such closures into two categories: cessation closures and selective closures. This classification is applied to closures in Sheffield from 1979 to 1989 and a further distinction is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. The local environmental factors which had most effect on inter-urban selective closures are identified. It is argued that local policies may be able to influence plants at risk of selective closure (through manipulation of the environmental factors) but that local policies are unlikely to influence plants at risk of cessation closure

Civil engineering · Closure (psychology · Economic geography · Economics · Urban planning · Urban policy · Engineering · International Business and FDI · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub