Geographical Dynamics and Industrial Relocation: Spatial Strategies of Apparel Firms in Ningbo, China

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengjun Zhu ◽  
John Pickles ◽  
Canfei He
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Industrial Relocation

Gaming in Spatial Expansion Tracks: The Case of the Swedish Brewery Industry

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1021-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Finne ◽  
R Laulajainen
Keyword(s):  
Nash Equilibrium ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Spatial Expansion ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
Simple Indicator

Two competitors try to maximize their respective market shares by acquiring smaller, passive companies. The heavy logistics bill and inherent scale economies in production recommend contagious expansion. This process is channeled by physical barriers and population distribution. Rationalization of production and distribution is postponed. The historical example is derived from the Swedish brewery industry. It may be seen as a game with a set of rules and some probabilistic parameters. The game is played thirty-seven times, by two persons at a time. The results span a spectrum of spatial strategies, dominated by three main types, one of which corresponds to the historical outcome. To get a firmer hold of ‘good’ strategies, the probabilistic elements are replaced by a simple indicator, the territory is abstracted into a network, and the decisionmaking sequence is analyzed deductively. The same three main types of strategy reemerge. One of them is tentatively considered to be a Nash equilibrium.

scholarly journals Transnational Support for Urban Climate Adaptation: Emerging Forms of Agency and Dependency

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric K. Chu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Institutional Culture ◽  
External Support ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Political Economic

Transnational actors are critical for financing programs and generating awareness around climate change adaptation in cities. However, it is unclear whether transnational support actually enables more authority over adaptation actions and whether outcomes address wide-ranging development needs. In this article, I compare experiences from three cities in India—Surat, Indore, and Bhubaneswar—and link local political agency over adaptation with their supporting transnational funders. I find that adaptation governance involves powers of agency over directing bureaucratic practices, public finance, spatial strategies, and institutional culture. A city’s ability to exert these powers then yields different patterns of adaptation. However, political agency is circumscribed by a combination of historical political economic constraints and emerging transnational resources that promote specific forms of political meaning and procedures. The presence of external support therefore paradoxically constrains the governance autonomy of cities. This opens up new opportunities for development dependency—that is, ones that mirror neoliberal critiques of foreign aid—within the global marketplace for climate finance.

scholarly journals Are New Olympic Attractions Well-Connected? A Network Analysis Measurement of Visitor Movement Patterns in Gangneung, South Korea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eujin-Julia Kim ◽  
Yongjun Jo ◽  
Youngeun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Tourist Behavior ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Network Research ◽  
Analysis Measurement ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
Mega Event

One of the most serious concerns about mega event-related changes to small cities is how to effectively utilize newly developed public attractions after the Olympic Games. Making connections with existing local amenities and forming attraction networks can be effective strategies for continuing a city’s revitalization. However, despite the expected benefits, attraction network research shows that these benefits often fail to materialize. With the case of Gangneung, a 2018 winter Olympic hosting city, this study investigated visitation patterns to nineteen selected attractions using network analysis. The results indicate that the most influential nodes are located on the northern coast, the eastern coast, and in the south downtown area, those nodes being the central locations where the strongest of connections are made. New attractions such as the Olympic Park and Walwha Linear Park were rather isolated. While seasonal and periodic variations, visitors’ residences, and destination choice attitudes had a significant effect on visitation patterns, the attraction networks, modes of transportation, proximity to region, and type similarity were not significant factors in the forming of visitation patterns. The results make a methodological contribution to tourist behavior and network research. In addition, beyond individual attraction development, the results provide practical implications in regard to networking and cooperation between multiple attractions using temporal and spatial strategies such as management/investment prioritizing, travel route development, and program scheduling.

Instruction of verbal and spatial strategies for the learning about large-scale spaces

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Wen ◽  
Toru Ishikawa ◽  
Takao Sato
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Scale Spaces

scholarly journals Comparative infrastructural modalities: Examining spatial strategies for Melbourne, Auckland and Vancouver

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 816-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
Support Housing ◽  
Political Economic

Infrastructure systems are critical to support sustainable and equitable urbanisation, and infrastructure is becoming more prominent within urban spatial strategies. However, the fragmented governance and delivery of spatial plans and infrastructure projects create a challenging environment to embed planning goals across the planning, delivery and operation of infrastructure systems. There is significant uncertainty around future needs and the complex ways that infrastructures influence socio-spatial relations and political-economic processes. Additionally, fragmented knowledge of infrastructure across different disciplines undermines the development of robust planning strategies. Comparative analysis of strategic spatial plans from Auckland, Melbourne and Vancouver examines how infrastructures are instrumentalised to support planning goals. Across the three cases, the analysis identified four common infrastructural modalities: rescaling socio-spatial relations through targeted intensification, intra-urban mobility upgrades and containment boundaries; re-localising socio-spatial relations to the suburban scale with ‘complete communities’; protection of ‘gateway’ precincts; and local planning provisions to support housing affordability. By examining infrastructure through a theoretical framework for suburban infrastructures, this analysis revealed how infrastructures exert agency as artefacts shaping socio-spatial relations and through the internalisation of political-economic processes. Each modality mobilised infrastructure to support goals of global competitiveness, economic growth and ‘liveability’. Findings suggest that spatial strategies should take a user-focused approach to infrastructure to meet the needs of diverse urban populations, and engage directly with the modes of infrastructure project delivery to embed planning goals across design, delivery and operations stages. Stronger institutional mandates to control land-use and provide affordable housing would improve outcomes in these city-regions.

scholarly journals Interactions of spatial strategies producing generalization gradient and blocking: A computational approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e1006092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Dollé ◽  
Ricardo Chavarriaga ◽  
Agnès Guillot ◽  
Mehdi Khamassi
Keyword(s):  
Generalization Gradient ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Spatial Strategies

Security Urbanism and the Counterterror State in Kenya

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Glück
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Urban Impacts ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban State

This article offers a theoretical and ethnographic analysis of 'security urbanism', examining the spatial practices of the Kenyan security state and the urban impacts of the War on Terror in Nairobi. From counterterror policing to forced disappearances, demolitions, military operations and the proliferation of checkpoints and security searches, the War on Terror has left its indelible material and affective impacts in Kenya. Counterterrorist policing operations such Operation Usalama Watch have left many marginalized Nairobi residents fearful and traumatized. Meanwhile, in rich suburbs, the twin specters of terrorism and crime fuse in the imaginations and gated compounds of the affluent. I analyze the urban, state and spatial transformations produced by the War on Terror across several geographical scales (from the highly local to the neighborhood and the national). In a first section, I focus on the 'state spatial strategies' of counterterrorism and analyze the emergence of a 'counterterror state' in Kenya. In a second section, I draw on several ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate how urban residents internalize and perform fears, fantasies and politics thoroughly saturated by the imaginaries of the War on Terror. Ultimately, I argue that Nairobi's security urbanism is the material articulation of War on Terror at the scale of the city, produced through the confluence of state strategies and everyday practices of securitized urban subjects. But how stable is the new hegemony of security in the country?

The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-398
Author(s):  
Jessica Dvorak Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Building Project

Abstract During the first half century of the Qing dynasty, Manchu emperors commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. In early Qing interpretations of classics on the family, negotiations between Manchu and Han family and gender norms furthered the empire-building project. This article compares the spatial form of the Yuding Nei ze yanyi 御定内則衍義 (1656), an expansion of the “Inner Standards” chapter of the Classic of Rites commissioned by the Shunzhi emperor, to that of the Yuding Xiao jing yanyi 御定孝經衍義 (1682), an expansion of the Classic of Filial Piety commissioned by the Kangxi emperor. These works are textual spaces where the cultural and political negotiations of the early Qing empire play out; they use spatial strategies of juxtaposition and hierarchy to balance different messages for different constituencies, creating textual models of empire.

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