Getting the territory right: infrastructure-led development and the re-emergence of spatial planning strategies

Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai

Regional Studies, 2021, vol. 55, issue 1, 40-51

Abstract: This paper argues that infrastructure-led development constitutes an emergent international development regime whose imperative is to ‘get the territory right’. Spatial planning strategies from the post-war era are increasingly employed in contemporary attempts to integrate territory with global networks of production and trade. Large-scale infrastructure projects link resource frontiers and subnational urban systems – oftentimes across national borders – in ways that constitute spatially articulated value chains geared toward the extraction of resources, logistical integration and industrial production. The paper charts the emergence of this regime, analyses its spatial manifestations and evaluates its developmental outcomes.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1661984

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