Le fort développement logistique, tout particulièrement au sein des pays du Nord, se traduit par l’accumulation d’entrepôts dans les territoires métropolitains (Hesse, 2008) tels que celui de Paris. Il nécessite la production d’espaces de grandes tailles, de grands entrepôts, très...

Les entrepôts logistiques comptent parmi les lieux-clés des systèmes productifs. Ils gèrent les nombreux flux matériels caractérisant l'économie 'hyper-industrielle' (Veltz, 2000). Ils s'implantent en préférence dans les grandes métropoles, telles que celle de Paris. Au sein de cette...

L’originalité de la structuration du marché logistique peut s'expliquer par des spécificités physiques et d’usage. Elles favorisent la globalisation de ce marché ainsi que l’intégration de la chaîne immobilière, en aval au plus proche des demandes des clients et des attentes des...

Since the early 1990s, planning theory has focused on the issue of institutional change. Not only does institutional change have clear bearings on processes of spatial planning, it is also, increasingly, seen as an object of planning. A core concept in the literature is the juxtaposition of...

This Windows on the Netherlands addresses the economic geography of commodity trade by providing insights from two Dutch port cities: Rotterdam and Amsterdam. It is argued that commodity traders provide an empirical site for uncovering the missing links between research on world cities on the...

This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of regulatory economics and reviews the main theories, tools, and domains of regulation

Within research on world cities, much attention has been paid to advanced producer services (APS) and their role within both global urban hierarchies and network formation between cities. What is largely ignored is that these APS provide services to firms operating in a range of different...

How do seaports evolve in relation to each other? Recent studies in port economics and transport geography focused on how supply chain integration has structurally changed the competitive landscape in which individual ports and port actors operate. Port regionalization has been addressed as the...

This paper focuses on the process of institutional change at the leading ports of the United States: Los Angeles and Long Beach. In order to do so, it makes use of the structure of provision-approach and the concept of regime politics which allows for a systematic analysis and comparison. Key...

How do seaports evolve in relation to each other? Recent studies in port economics and transport geography have been focused on how supply-chain integration has structurally changed the competitive landscape in which individual ports and port actors operate. Port regionalization has been...