Distribution Centers among the Rooftops: The Global Logistics Network Meets the Suburban Spatial Imaginary

Abstract

Abstracti jur_973 832..852 Changes in shipping over recent decades have altered the geography of freight transportation in the USA in a number of ways. In particular, significant volumes of freight traffic are now traveling inland to the Ohio River valley and the Midwest. Within metropolitan areas here, large amounts of land on the suburban fringe are being developed as logistics or distribution centers in municipalities that are experiencing otherwise typical greenfield suburban growth. This article explores this development through a case study in the southwest suburbs of Chicago that are experiencing rapid growth in both population and freight distribution activity. Here, in a so-called global era of placeless flows, land use and economic development continue to be based largely on a spatial imaginary of bounded and discrete territories, with long-term environmental and economic consequences for the political units in question.

Locational dynamics of logistics facilities: Evidence from Tokyo

“…Using several different data sets, mainly from the U.K., McKinnon (2009) identifies the factors that influence logistics land requirements as the off-shoring of manufacturing, rebalancing of logistics cost trade-offs and advances of warehouse technology among others. Similarly, Cidell (2011) argues that containerization, the globalization of production, and the prevalence of just-in-time (JIT) production model have enhanced the need for high through-put facilities. In addition, the changes in retail business practices, such as the rise of electronic commerce (Dablanc et al, 2011), have increased the importance of the capacity of handling flows compared to the capacity of storage (Hesse, 2004).…”

Análise do espraiamento logístico: um estudo para a região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte

“…Cidell (2010) analisou a distribuição espacial destas instalações em regiões metropolitanas norte americanas e identi$icou um processo de localização na periferia, com raras exceções, devido, principalmente, ao custo dos imóveis em aŕeas centrais e à necessidade de redução de custos das empresas de transporte. Cidell (2011) identi$icou um processo espacial de suburbanização do transporte de carga, por meio de um estudo de caso na região metropolitana de Chicago, destacando a necessidade de um planejamento urbano regional integrado com o uso do solo.…”

“…Apesar disto, identi$icou-se uma escassez de estudos com o objetivo de compreender a distribuiçaõ espacial das instalações logıśticas em regiões metropolitanas (Hesse e Rodrigue, 2004;Bowen, 2008;Andreoli et al, 2010;Cidell, 2010;Cidell, 2011;Sakai et al, 2015;Taniguchi et al, 2016). Existem análises para regiões metropolitanas europeias (Dablanc e Rakotonarivo, 2010;Dablanc e Andriankaja, 2011;Heitz e Dablanc, 2015;Strale et al 2015), americanas (Dablanc e Ross, 2012;Dablanc et al, 2014), canadenses (Woudsma et al, 2016) e para a região metropolitana de Tóquio (Japão) (Sakai et al 2015;2016b).…”

On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’

“…Questions of access and connectivity continue to pivot around key privileged urban nodes, (Farmer, 2011) while on the other, the outer suburbs compete through an emerging suburban territorial politics for their stake of the global and continental logistics industries (Cidell, 2011;Keil and Addie, forthcoming). Chicago's 'backstage city' is consequently locked-in a peripheral form of in-between urbanization as an extended landscape characterized by "the remnant spaces of Fordist urbanization" (Young and Keil, 2010, page 90) and infrastructural bypassing conditioned by the rhythms of global urbanization.…”