Flows and pauses in the urban logistics landscape: the municipal regulation of shipping container mobilities

Cidell, Julie L.

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Title

Flows and pauses in the urban logistics landscape: the municipal regulation of shipping container mobilities

Author(s)

Cidell, Julie L.

Issue Date

2012

Keyword(s)

• containers
• logistics
• mobilities
• local government
• regulation

Geographic Coverage

North America

Abstract

The mobilities turn has demonstrated the importance of the social, cultural, and political implications of travel for a variety of modes, though largely focused on people and vehicles, not freight. The transport of goods by shipping container has become the predominant means of freight transport since the 1960s, shaping places from port cities to rural distribution centers. This paper uses two North American case studies to explore temporary immobilities or pauses in the flows of shipping containers, showing that the problems containers pose to the places they pass through are not a function of the objects themselves, but their state of mobility. Pauses are important as a category of mobility because of the consequences of regulations that attempt to eliminate or redirect them.

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text

Language

en

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