Journal
REGIONAL STUDIES
Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 40-51Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1661984
Keywords
infrastructure; development; regional planning; neoliberalism
Funding
- British Academy's Tackling the UK's International Challenges Programme
- Regional Studies Association
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This paper argues that infrastructure-led development is an emergent international development regime with a focus on proper territorial planning. Large-scale infrastructure projects link resource frontiers and subnational urban systems, forming spatially articulated value chains that facilitate resource extraction, logistical integration, and industrial production.
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.
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