Industrial Infrastructure: Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina

Abstract: 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. I

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Urban Planning ; 6 (2021) 3 ; 444-463

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Beyer, Elke ; Elsner, Lucas-Andrés ; Hagemann, Anke ; Misselwitz, Philipp

Further information

• DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i3.4211
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091414212004185575
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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