Infrastructure Alliances: Supply-Chain Expansion and Multi-city Growth Coalitions

David Wachsmuth

Economic Geography, 2017, vol. 93, issue 1, 44-65

Abstract: Recent scholarship has suggested that infrastructure development is fragmenting local urban politics, but I argue that it has had the opposite impact at the multi-city regional scale. New multi-city growth coalitions are currently emerging across the United States, united by a shared interest in supply-chain expansion—the extension of effective supply chains and the intensification of circulatory possibilities in regional transportation networks. In this article I develop a theoretical account of these novel infrastructure alliances, and explore empirical examples across the domains of (1) logistics and trade, and (2) manufacturing and resource extraction supply chains. I conclude by considering possible future trajectories for infrastructure alliances and entrepreneurial urban governance.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1199263

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